Текст песни Lloyd - The Mermaid
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The MermaidOne night as I lay on my bed,I lay so fast asleep,When the thought of my true love came running to my headAnd poor sailors that sail on the deep.As I sailed out one day, one day,And being not far from land,And there I spied a mermaid a-sitting on a rockWith a comb and a glass in her hand.The song she sang, she sang so sweet,But no answer at all could us make,Till at last our gallant ship she tooked round aboutWhich made all our poor hearts to ache.Then up stepped the helmsman of our shipIn his hand a lead and line;All for to sound the seas, my boys, that is so wide and deepBut to hard rock or sand could he find.Then up stepped the captain of our shipAnd a well-speaking man is he,He says," I have a wife, my boys, in fair Plymouth townBut this night a widow she will be."Then up stepped the bosun of our shipAnd a well-spoken man was he,He says, "I have two sons, my boys, in fair Bristol townAnd orphans I fear they will be.And then up stepped the little cabin boyAnd a pretty boy was he,He says, "Oh I grieve for my own mother dearWhom I shall nevermore see.""Last night, when the moon shined brightMy mother had sons five,But now she may look in the salt, salt seaAnd find but one alive."Call a boat, call a boat, my fair Plymouth boysDon`t you hear how the trumpets sound?For the want of a long-boat in the ocean we were lostAnd most of our merry men drowned.From Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Williams and Lloyd)From singing of James Herridge, 1906See also MERMDFRIChild #289filename[ MERMAID3play.exe MERMAID3RG===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY===