Mermaid (IV), The

DESCRIPTION: "When I was a lad in a fishing town, an old man said to me... don't go swimmin' with a mermaid, son, if you don't know how to swim!" He'll love only the upper part. This proves true. But then he finds a mermaid whose lower half is a girl, and is happy
AUTHOR: Shel Silverstein (source: Wikipedia)
EARLIEST DATE: 1965 (recording, Shel Silverstein, according to Wikipedia)
KEYWORDS: humorous mermaid/man sailor
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
DT, MERMAID8
RECORDINGS:
Dale Borusky, "Mermaid Song" (Piotr-Archive #557, recorded 04/18/2023)
NOTES [52 words]: This song, and its gag, are popular enough to have a Wikipedia entry, filed under "The Mermaid (Shel Silverstein song)." I'll let you look up details there.
Dale Borusky learned a number of songs from his grandmother Pearl Jacobs Borusky, but he says he learned this one in the Navy. Why am I not surprised? - RBW
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