The Mermaid - Great Big Sea (Studio Version)

Описание: This song is so disturbing it's hilarious. (Or maybe you have to hear it at the right time...)
At any rate, lyrics:

When I was a lad in a fishing town
Me old man said to me:
"You can spend your life, your jolly life
Just sailing on the sea."
"You can search the world for pretty girls
Til your eyes are weak and dim,"
"But don't go searching for a mermaid, son,
If you don't know how to swim."

'Cause her hair was green as seaweed,
Her skin was blue and pale.
Her face, it was a work of art,
I love that girl with all my heart.
But I only like the upper part;
I did not like the tail...

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."

So over I jumped and she pulled me down,
Down to her seaweed bed
On a pillow made of a tortoise-shell
She placed beneath my head
She fed me shrimp and caviar
Upon a silver dish
From her head to her waist, it was just my taste
But the rest of her WAS A FISH

'Cause her hair was green as seaweed,
Her skin was blue and pale.
Her face, it was a work of art,
I love that girl with all my heart!
I only like the upper part;
I did not like the tail...

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 awhirl...
'Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
But her bottom part WAS A GIRL.

Yes, her hair was green as seaweed,
Her skin was blue and pale.
Her legs, they are a work of art!
I love that girl with all my heart!
AND I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE UPPER PART!
'Cause that's how I get my tail.