The Mermaid by Great Big Sea Lyric and Guitar Chords

If you are looking for The Mermaid guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play The Mermaid by Great Big Sea using guitar or guitar.
This song by Great Big Sea can also be played by that instruments.
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The Mermaid guitar chords has rhythm and included in The Hard and The Easy (2005) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

The Mermaid by Great Big Sea Guitar Chords


When I was a lad
D
in a fishing town
Me ol
G
d man said to m
D
e:

“You can spend your life, your jolly life
Just sa

Bm
iling on the
A
sea.
D
You can search the world for pretty girls
Til your ey
G
es are weak and
F#m
dim,
But do
G
n’t go searching for a m
D
ermaid, son
If you
G
don’t know h
A
ow to sw
D
im”

Chorus
‘Cause her

G
hair was green as
D
seaweed
Her s
G
kin was blue and p
D
ale
Her f
G
ace it was a work of
D
art,
I l
G
oved that girl with al
D
l my heart
But I o
G
nly liked the u
D
pper part
I d
G
id not l
A
ike the ta
D
il

I s

D
igned onto a sailing ship
My v
G
ery first day at
D
sea
I seen the Mermaid in the waves,
Rea
Bm
ching out to
A
me
“Come l
D
ive with me in the sea said she,
Do
G
wn on the ocean f
F#m
loor
And I’ll s
G
how you a million w
D
onderous things
You’ve n
G
ever s
A
een be
D
fore
So o
D
ver I jumped and she pulled me down,
G
Down to her seaweed
D
bed

On a pillow made of a tortoise-shell
She p

A
laced beneath my
A
head
She
D
fed me shrimp and caviar
Up
G
on a silver
F#m
dish
From her h
G
ead to her waist it was j
D
ust my taste
But the r
G
est of h
A
er was a f
D
ish

Chorus
‘Cause her

G
hair was green as
D
seaweed
Her s
G
kin was blue and p
D
ale
Her f
G
ace it was a work of
D
art,
I l
G
oved that girl with al
D
l my heart
But I o
G
nly liked the u
D
pper part
I d
G
id not l
A
ike the ta
D
il

D
But then one day, she swam away
So I s
G
ang to the clams and the wh
D
ales
“Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair
And the
Bm
silver shine of her
A
scales
But t
D
hen her sister, she swam by
An
G
d set my heart a
F#m
whirl
Cause her u
G
pper part was an
D
ugly fish
But her
G
bottom pa
A
rt was a g
D
irl

Chorus
Yes her h

G
air was green as
D
seaweed
Her s
G
kin was blue and p
D
ale
Her l
G
egs they are a w
D
ork of art,
I l
G
oved that girl with al
D
l my heart
And I d
G
on’t give a damn about the u
D
pper part
Cause t
G
hat’s how I g
A
et my t
D
ail.

If you want to learn Great Big Sea The Mermaid guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play The Mermaid. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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