The Merman - The Wolfe Tones

I’m a sailorman from Wexford town, I’ve sailed the 7 seas

I’ll tell you a true story of the sunny Southron seas

We were caught up in the Gorgons, while waiting for a breeze

When the stillness of the day was broken by a merman in the deep blue seas

Well the captain he slept below while the crew they lay about

When down in the ocean deep we heard this mighty shout

His hair was red, his eyes were green, his beard was floating free

He’d a long green tail that could kill a whale that wobbled in the deep blue sea

Cho: And the mermaids looked so beautiful as they swam around by the shore

But this merman with his fishy tail I’ve never seen before

And sailors tell the tallest tales, I’ve never told a lie

He’d a long green tail that could kill a whale and that waggled as he swam

close by

Then the cuckatool well he ran below, woke the captain from his sleep

And the captain came on deck at once, took a look into the deep

«O I’ve never seen the likes of this!"And the merman then he soon agreed

«Then who are you, where do you come from, what do you want here?»

Well he shook his tail, it rocked the boat, and filled our hearts with fear

«You've dropped your anchor on my house, it’s blocking up me door

And me wife, the mermaid, she’s trapped inside, and me children can’t get out

no more!»

Cho

Well we quickly hoisted anchor, boys, and the merman then did smile

«Sure, me name is Patrick John O’Rourke, I come from Erin’s isle

It was many years ago from now I was shipwrecked on the reef

When this pretty mermaid she rescued me from the perils of the ocean deep

And we very soon were married way down in the deep blue sea

And I’m happy and contented with me wife and family

Though I oft-times wish I could go home and live on Ireland’s shores

But I’m committed to the ocean blue and I can’t go home again no more»