I signed onto a sailing ship

My very first day at sea

I seen the mermaid in the waves

Reaching out to me

"Come live with me in the sea," said she

"Down on the ocean floor

And I'll show you a million wondrous things

You've never seen before"

....

But then one day, she swam away

So I sang to the clams and the whales

"Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair

And the silver shine of her scales"

But then her sister, she swam by

And set my heart a-whirl

Cause her upper part was an ugly fish

But her bottom part was a girl