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13 Jul 08 - 03:48 PM (#2387932) Subject: Song for a mermaid From: GUEST,spb-cooperator Can anyone help..... I am looking for a comic song to complete a playlet to be sung by a not-so-glamorous mermaid (equivalent of a pantomime dame) - maybe no-one loves a mermaid when shes forty...... maybe someone has a better idea...... puns on other song titles are equally welcome........ |
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13 Jul 08 - 03:59 PM (#2387935) Subject: RE: Song for a mermaid From: The Sandman The Sailors Dream. |
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13 Jul 08 - 04:02 PM (#2387936) Subject: RE: Song for a mermaid From: The Sandman I mean the somg written by Dick Miles. |
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14 Jul 08 - 05:52 AM (#2388261) Subject: RE: Song for a mermaid From: GUEST to this old rincy person |
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14 Jul 08 - 07:06 AM (#2388280) Subject: RE: Song for a mermaid From: Piers Plowman "The Eddystone Light", Heine's "Die Lorelai" and Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer" are the songs involving mermaids that spring to my mind, whereby only the first is a comic song. "Die Lorelai" is witty and ironic, which doesn't quite come across in the melody. I don't think I've ever heard it in English. I suppose a Lorelai isn't really a mermaid, but she's fairly close. |
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14 Jul 08 - 07:52 AM (#2388295) Subject: RE: Song for a mermaid From: Steve Gardham Most trad mermaid songs are about mermaids rather than as can be sung by said amphibians. Here's a start on a song with apologies to Rawtenstall Annual fair's author. Roll up, roll up, come and see the mermaid, see the lovely lady, half a woman, half a fish, Last time I came ashore I landed on me tail, A little lad said, 'Mother, I think it's a beached whale,' Another said, 'A walrus,' another said, 'A seal,' Another said, 'An octopus,' and then, 'A conger eel.' A fisherman came up to me and said, 'Have you got a daughter?' When I answered no, he threw me back into the water, All on ---------- Beach. |
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14 Jul 08 - 08:17 AM (#2388319) Subject: RE: Song for a mermaid From: mrmoe check out Shel Silverstein's "the mermaid"..... |
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14 Jul 08 - 09:26 AM (#2388378) Subject: RE: Song for a mermaid From: masato sakurai See MERMAID (RULE BRITANNIA) (2). |
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14 Jul 08 - 10:27 AM (#2388422) Subject: RE: Song for a mermaid From: GUEST See Nasty Nell already mentioned on this forum |
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14 Jul 08 - 01:30 PM (#2388676) Subject: RE: Song for a mermaid From: PoppaGator Then there's Mississippi John Hurt's mermaid song: LET THE MERMAIDS FLIRT WITH ME (Key of C) C G C Blues all on the ocean F C Blues all in the air F C Can't stay here no longer G G7 Have no steamship fare (CHORUS:) C G C When my earthly trials are over F C Cast my body out in the sea F C Save all the undertaker bills G C Let the mermaids flirt with me Wife controls our unhappy home** My sweetheart I cannot find The only thing that I can call my own is a Troubled and a worried mind (Repeat Chorus) I do not work for pleasure Earthly peace, I'll see no more*** The onliest reason I work at all is Drive the wolf from my door (Repeat Chorus) Blues all in my body, My darlin' has forsaken me If I ever want to see her face again I have to swim across the see **(In some versions, it sounds as though Hurt sang "My wife controls our happy home") ***( Alternate; "As to peace, I'll see no more") |