• Song:

    Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me

  • Artist:

    Mississippi John Hurt

  • Album:

    D.C. Blues: Library of ...

Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me

Also known as The Mermaid Flirt With Me or, in Polish, in interpretation and 
translation by Marek Szurawski, sung himself with accompaniment and second voice 
by John Townley - Syrena Niech Porwie Mnie. 
You propably can find this song in polish chorded by me somewhere in the net.
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First verse:

C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)    C (x32010@1)     F (133211@1)             CBlues (x32010@1)all on the ocean, blues all in the air;
F (133211@1)                C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1)              GCan't (320003@1)stay here no longer, I have no steamship fare.
        C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)           F (133211@1)             CWhen (x32010@1)my earthly trials are over, cast my body out in the sea; 
F (133211@1)              C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)                CSave (x32010@1)on the undertaker bill - let the mermaids flirt with me!


Second verse:

  C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)        C (x32010@1)             F (133211@1)               CI (x32010@1)do not work for pleasure; earthly peace I'll see no more;
     F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1)               D (xx0232@1)                   GThe (320003@1)only reason I work at all is to drive the wolf from my door.
        C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)           F (133211@1)             CWhen (x32010@1)my earthly trials are over, cast my body out in the sea;
F (133211@1)              C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)                CSave (x32010@1)on the undertaker bill - let the mermaids flirt with me!


Third verse:

   C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1)             F (133211@1)              CMy (x32010@1)wife controls our happy home; my sweetheart I cannot find.
    F (133211@1)              C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)                    GThe (320003@1)only thing I can call my own is a troubled and a worried mind.
        C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)           F (133211@1)             CWhen (x32010@1)my earthly trials are over, cast my body out in the sea;
F (133211@1)              C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)                CSave (x32010@1)on the undertaker bill - let the mermaids flirt with me!


Fourth verse:

C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)    F (133211@1)                 CBlues (x32010@1)all in my body; my darlin' has forsaken me.
     F (133211@1)          C (x32010@1)                 D (xx0232@1)              GIf (320003@1)I ever see her face again, have to travel 'cross the sea.
        C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)           F (133211@1)             CWhen (x32010@1)my earthly trials are over, cast my body out in the sea;
F (133211@1)              C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)                CSave (x32010@1)on the undertaker bill - let the mermaids flirt with me!


Fifth verse, the same as first:

C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)    C (x32010@1)     F (133211@1)             CBlues (x32010@1)all on the ocean, blues all in the air;
F (133211@1)                C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1)              GCan't (320003@1)stay here no longer, I have no steamship fare.
        C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)           F (133211@1)             CWhen (x32010@1)my earthly trials are over, cast my body out in the sea; 
F (133211@1)              C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)                CSave (x32010@1)on the undertaker bill - let the mermaids flirt with me!
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Hope that I helped You a bit, but if something is wrong, mail me: tanbris @ mail . ru

Thanks, have a nice playin' (:


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