There Once Was A Lovely Mermaid by Bradypus


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The Song Challenge: Well, this should be a "cleansing" experience after the last two Challenge!s. The Topless Mermaid: 'Most people just look and cheer' -- OSLO, Norway - A bare-breasted blonde mermaid perched atop a rock is making tourists gape in disbelief along a Norwegian fjord. "One man once jumped off a boat and swam over to me," Line Oexnevad, 37 and mother of two children, said on Tuesday of her unorthodox job as a professional siren. "Most people just look and cheer." Oexnevad, naked except for a long blonde wig and a costume fish-tail, said she has sat five times on a rock along the Lyse fjord in West Norway in the past three summers, hired as a surprise attraction for tourist boat trips and parties. "The last time it was a bit cold," she said. "The mermaid in Copenhagen and me are the only mermaids I know of," she said. The "Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen is a statue inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Oexnevad, who also works at a hospital in nearby Stavanger, said she was no good at singing -- in legend, sirens sang to lure sailors. "Maybe next time I'll take along a cassette player," she said.

There Once Was A Lovely Mermaid by Bradypus

Bradypus' Comments: As we're in Hans Christian Andersen country (with mermaids, I know he wasn't Norwegian), we could try something like:

There once was a lonely mermaid
At Lyse Fjord on a rock
She lay at rest, and was bare of breast
Which came as quite a shock

Oh! She's bare! Look There! She's bare!
It came as quite a shock.

All through the summer
Working on an all-over tan
On a rock alone, skin a copper tone
Quite out of sight of man

Oh! She's wrong ! Not in this song!
She's right in sight of man!

All the boats and ships and cruisers
They came from miles around
But they kept so quiet, as was only right
To spy on what they'd found

Oh! That's good! She's in the nude
Keep hush, or away she'll bound

Then the summer ended
The mermaid swam away
And the voyeurs now are voyagers
Who will sail for many a day

It's hide and seek, no more free peeks
The mermaid's swam away!