Mermaid? by MMario


The Mudcat Forum	The Mudcat Resource Pages	The Mudcat Midi Page	The Digital Tradition Folk Song Server
Back to The Mudcat Songbook		Back to The Song Challenge Winners!
Anyone is welcome to perform these songs in public without royalties; however, if any of them are recorded or published for profit, the writers/composers expect the usual royalties.

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.

Mermaid? by MMario
(Tune: "Quare Bungle Rye")

MMario's Comments: Okay - so this has very little to do with the challenge...hey it DOES have a mermaid in it...

Now Lyse was a fjord, just outside of town
And I was a tourist, my name 'tis Bjorn Brown
I went for a cruise, and a mermaid did spy
I jumped over board, and I bet you know why!

Fal diddy die, diddle diddle doe die

I laughed and I shouted! I pointed! How bold!
I just had to get closer, though it was bloody cold
So I jumped over board, and swam towards her rock
And when I got there, I was in for a shock!

Fal diddy die, diddle diddle doe die

Because I'd been drinkin', I was so confused
And this was half maiden and half a fish fused
From waist to one end, she was nothing but shark
The rest would have looked good with wings and a harp!

Fal diddy die, diddle diddle doe die

Her ankles and calves, I just had to caress
But her shark half got jealous, or so I would guess
Before I could touch her, her jaws opened wide
Displaying the three rows of sharp teeth inside

fal diddy die, shortly there-after I died!