Biography:
Great Big Sea is a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs. The band also performs original material.
On March 11, 2010, Great Big Sea celebrated their seventeenth birthday as a band. And like almost every one of their many anniversaries spent together, they celebrated it by playing a concert, this one in Omaha, Nebraska. For the players it was an important landmark
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Other songs:
- A Boat Like Gideon Brown
- French Shore
- Harbour Lecou
- Mari Mac
- Old Black Rum
- The River Driver
- When I Am King
- Bad As I Am
- Banks Of Newfoundland
- Barque In The Harbour
- Beat The Drum
- Born To Believe
- Boston And St Johns
- Buying Time
- Cant Stop Falling
- Captain Kidd
- Captain Wedderburn
- Clearest Indication
- Cod Liver Oil
- Come And I Will Sing You The Twelve Apostles
- Company Of Fools
- Concerning Charlie Horse
- Consequence Free
- Dance Dance
- Dear Home Town
- Demasduit Dream
- Dont Wanna Go Home
- Dream To Live
- End Of The World As We Know It
- England
- Everything Shines
- Excursion Around The Bay
- Fast As I Can
- Feel It Turn
- Ferryland Sealer
- Fishermans Lament
- Follow Me Back
- French Perfume
- Goin Up
- Gone By The Board
- Good People
- Graceful And Charming
- Hard Case
- Have A Cuppa Tea
- Heart Of Hearts
- Heart Of Stone
- Helmet Head
- Here And Now
- Hit The Ground And Run
- How Did We Get From Saying I Love You
- I Havent Seen You In A Long Time
- Im A Rover
- Ise The By
- Its The End Of The World As We Know It
- Jack Hinks
- Jakeys Gin
- John Barbour
- Jolly Roving Tar
- Josephine The Baker
- Let It Go
- Let My Love Open The Door
- Live This Life
- Long Lost Love
- Love
- Love Me Tonight
- Lucky Me
- Lukey
- Margarita
- Mari
- Mary Mac
- Mermaid
- My Apology
- Nothing But A Song
- Nothing Out Of Nothing
- Oh Yeah
- Old Polina
- Ordinary Day
- Own True Way
- Penelope
- Protest Song
- Rant And Roar
- Recruiting Sargeant
- Road To Ruin
- Rocks Of Merasheen
- Run Runaway
- Sally Ann
- Scolding Wife
- Sea Of No Cares
- Seagulls
- Shines Right Through Me
- Someday Soon
- Somedays
- Something Beautiful
- Something To It
- Straight To Hell
- Stumblin In
- Summer
- The Chemical Workers Song Process Man
- The Jolly Butcher
- The Mermaid
- The Night Pat Murphy Died
- The Old Black Rum
- Tickle Cove Pond
- Time Brings
- Walk On The Moon
- Wandering Ways
- Wave Over Wave
- What Are Ya At
- When Im Up
- When Im Up I Cant Get Down
- Widow In The Window
- Yankee Sailor
- Yarmouth Town
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Simple song. Capo it to wherever suits your voice!
D
When I was a lad in a fishing town
G D
Me old man said to me:
"You can spend your life, your jolly life
Bm A
Just sailing on the sea.
D
You can search the world for pretty girls
G F#m
Til your eyes are weak and dim,
G D
But don't go searching for a mermaid, son
G A D
If you don't know how to swim"
Chorus
G D
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
G D
Her skin was blue and pale
G D
Her face it was a work of art,
G D
I loved that girl with all my heart
G D
But I only liked the upper part
G A D
I did not like the tail
D
I signed onto a sailing ship
G D
My very first day at sea
I seen the Mermaid in the waves,
Bm A
Reaching out to me
D
"Come live with me in the sea said she,
G F#m
Down on the ocean floor
G D
And I'll show you a million wonderous things
G A D
You've never seen before
D
So over I jumped and she pulled me down,
G D
Down to her seaweed bed
On a pillow made of a tortoise-shell
Bm A
She placed beneath my head
D
She fed me shrimp and caviar
G F#m
Upon a silver dish
G D
From her head to her waist it was just my taste
G A D
But the rest of her was a fish
Chorus
G D
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
G D
Her skin was blue and pale
G D
Her face it was a work of art,
G D
I loved that girl with all my heart
G D
But I only liked the upper part
G A D
I did not like the tail
D
But then one day, she swam away
G D
So I sang to the clams and the whales
"Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair
Bm A
And the silver shine of her scales
D
But then her sister, she swam by
G F#m
And set my heart awhirl
G D
Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
G A D
But her bottom part was a girl
Chorus
G D
Yes her hair was green as seaweed
G D
Her skin was blue and pale
G D
Her legs they are a work of art,
G D
I loved that girl with all my heart
G D
And I don't give a damn about the upper part
G A D
Cause that's how I get my tail.
D
When I was a lad in a fishing town
G D
Me old man said to me:
"You can spend your life, your jolly life
Bm A
Just sailing on the sea.
D
You can search the world for pretty girls
G F#m
Til your eyes are weak and dim,
G D
But don't go searching for a mermaid, son
G A D
If you don't know how to swim"
Chorus
G D
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
G D
Her skin was blue and pale
G D
Her face it was a work of art,
G D
I loved that girl with all my heart
G D
But I only liked the upper part
G A D
I did not like the tail
D
I signed onto a sailing ship
G D
My very first day at sea
I seen the Mermaid in the waves,
Bm A
Reaching out to me
D
"Come live with me in the sea said she,
G F#m
Down on the ocean floor
G D
And I'll show you a million wonderous things
G A D
You've never seen before
D
So over I jumped and she pulled me down,
G D
Down to her seaweed bed
On a pillow made of a tortoise-shell
Bm A
She placed beneath my head
D
She fed me shrimp and caviar
G F#m
Upon a silver dish
G D
From her head to her waist it was just my taste
G A D
But the rest of her was a fish
Chorus
G D
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
G D
Her skin was blue and pale
G D
Her face it was a work of art,
G D
I loved that girl with all my heart
G D
But I only liked the upper part
G A D
I did not like the tail
D
But then one day, she swam away
G D
So I sang to the clams and the whales
"Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair
Bm A
And the silver shine of her scales
D
But then her sister, she swam by
G F#m
And set my heart awhirl
G D
Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
G A D
But her bottom part was a girl
Chorus
G D
Yes her hair was green as seaweed
G D
Her skin was blue and pale
G D
Her legs they are a work of art,
G D
I loved that girl with all my heart
G D
And I don't give a damn about the upper part
G A D
Cause that's how I get my tail.
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