The Forsaken Mermaid
As I was a-walking down by the sea-shore
Where the wind and the waves and the billows do roar
There I heard a strange voice make a terrible sound
'Twas the wind and the waves and the echoes all round
Crying, O-oh my love has gone
He's a youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more.She'd a voice like a nightingale, skin like a dove
And the song that she sung it was all about love.
I asked her to marry me, marry me, please
But the answer she gave, My love's drowned in the sea.
Crying, O-Oh my love has gone
He's a youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more.I told her I'd gold and I'd silver beside
In a coach and six horses with me she could ride.
No I never will marry nor yet make a wife
I'll stay constant and true all the time I've got life.
Crying, O-oh my love has gone
He's a youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more.She threw out her arms and she took a great leap
From the cliffs that were high to the billows so deep
Crying, the rocks of the ocean shall make me a bed
And the shrimps of the sea shall swim over my head.
Crying, O-oh my love has gone
He's a youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more.And now every night at six bells they appear
When the moon it is shining, the sky it is clear,
These two constant lovers with all their young charms
Rolling over and over in each other's arms.
Crying, O-oh my love has gone
He 's a youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more.
The Forsaken Mermaid words and music are in The Copper Family Song Book, but not in Bob Copper's book, A Song for Every Season.
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