Mermaid

Verse 1: G Am C G So I said,men, pull her out of the water and then Am C G Lay on hands and bind back her flippers and tail Am C G Until international waters and there Am C We'll feel, all that's human inside of her Riff: E335-7-5-3 B5-3-3 G D A E Verse 2: G Am So she's chilly and slick C G on her hips where the scales meet with skin Am C With the sickening flick of her tail G Am C Circling her gills filled with cold salty water G Am And she thrashes and twirls C aah the freezing fins flutter Riff G Am C But she's pretty, I think with her hair dark as ink. G Am And her belly, bone white. C G Am and her lips of a slight seashell pink lightly part C G And she's tonging the tubs rusty rim Am As the salt C Of the water it flows out of it. Riff C F G Oh farewells is to the land we know well C F G We'll never be touching again. C F G To fields where we rambled and ran. C F G Farewell to our wives and children. C F G Let's stand on the deck and lets watch C F G They're all disappearing. Riff x2 The placement of the chords and the riff follows that pattern for the rest of the song. And the days all float by and the days over waves Under sky and the weeks slowly leak into years. The last islands are all left behind as we silently sail Until late some dark night a wild wind starts to wail And our map blows away and our compasses fail And it's out on the lost boiling black water where I see her float out She's so thin and so pale. I see her rise up. she's so fast and so fair. My hands knead and they press to a point in the air. Then my mouth fills with a panicking prayer My skull fills with more color than care. Then my heart fills with love with too much love to bear. And I know if I stay that she'll always be there My hands soak in cold sand seaweed swam through her hair Oooooh la la la la Laaaaa la la la la