The Forsaken Mermaid

As I was a-walking down by the seashore
Where the wind and the waves and the billows did roar
There I heard a strange voice make a sorrowful sound
'Twas the wind and the waves and the echoes all around
Crying oh, oh, oh my love is gone
He's the youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more
She'd a voice like a nightingale, skin like a dove
And the song that she sang it was all about love
I asked her to marry me, marry me please
But the answer she gave, my love's drowned in the sea
Crying oh, oh, oh my love is gone
He's the youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more
I told her I'd gold and I'd silver beside
And a coach and six horses with me she could ride
Now I never will marry nor yet make a wife
I'll stay constant and true all the time I've got life
Crying oh, oh, oh my love is gone
He's the youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more
She threw out her arms and she took a great leap
From the cliffs that were high to the billows so deep
Crying the rocks of the ocean shall make me a bed
And the shrimps of the sea shall swim over my head
Crying oh, oh, oh my love is gone
He's the youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more
And now every night at six bells they appear
When the moon it is shining, the sky it is clear
These two constant lovers with all their young charms
Rolling over and over in each other's arms
Crying oh, oh, oh my love is gone
He's the youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more