This song is a kinda when I first fell in love or figured what love was about, or the hope for it, the search for it.... this tickled a lot, and still love it, but reminds me of 1984 movie Splash ' What I was hoping back then what it should and always should be like... So here is link to the best part from way back. ua-cam.com/video/-HSAXTL4RRk/v-deo.html sorry, got kinda mushy .... But still hope that that may be for some folk... Still in love with the idea... ya know?
I had a fish back my freshman year of college and he no joke “danced” to this song! Would get all swimmy up by the surface more active than any time he normally was! Miss my little “Amadeus” fish dude
Just as an FYI, this song doesn't belong to Great Big Sea, it is just performed by them. The original was written by Shel Silverstein for Playboy Magazine in the late 60's as a poem.
"it doesn't belong to great big sea" What a stupid way of wording "Shel Silverstein, prolific poet, songwriter and humorist, wrote the lyrics to this". Incredibly stupid. "boy named sue" doesn't belong to Johnny Cash by this broken way of writing.
@@medes5597 The difference is, there are MANY bands who also have recorded versions of this song. When the OP puts specifically in their description, "I do not own the song what so ever, it belongs to the wonderful band Great Big Sea!" it's not pedantry to call it out. Unless you didn't read that part and were just trying to find a way to insult my comment?
@@isaacwisniewski3857 this version of the song, is indeed owned by the band in terms of copyright regardless of anything else. It's still a very stupid way to make the point that Shel Silverstein wrote it and I stand by it being dumb. The song does indeed belong to them in a legal sense. Which is clearly what's being referred to. Not any creative ownership. Still dumb.
Funny thing, i loved the picture of the mermaid with the ship, so i looked it up on google to steal it for my background and i was laughing because the original photo doesnt have the mermaids breast in the picture. I think the person who did this song edited it. It does look great lol i couldnt tell it wasnt there before and yes i stlil used the photo! Ima girl and i dont care about naked girls. But I was still surprised haha
I wouldn’t mind the tail. Also mermaids get confused with sirens. They are completely different. Look at the sirens in Greek mythology, they are nothing alike. However mermaids aren’t exactly known for being innocent.
Why would other water mammals matter in this regard? There's lots of weird animals who mate in idiosyncratic ways compared to their closest relativea in the same environment.
@@medes5597 basically because of the way they have sex. Dolphins don’t have sex the same way fish do, and if his complaint about the first girl was not getting any then that’s on him.
Anyone else thought that the song was about falling in love with a girl who had dated afew bad apples only for the guy to start his own affair with her sister
Can someone do me a solid and make a tribute to mero from monster musume with this song I really love that girl with all my heart and I don’t give a dame about her tail because that how I gat my tail yes her hair was pink a sea shells her skin was Farr and pail o how I love the ruby shine of hers scales and I don’t give a dame about her lower part because that how I get my tail
Reminds me of Fry from Futurama.
"Why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid, with the fish part on top and lady part on bottom."
This song literally makes me giggle the entire way through!
This song is a kinda when I first fell in love or figured what love was about, or the hope for it, the search for it.... this tickled a lot, and still love it, but reminds me of 1984 movie Splash ' What I was hoping back then what it should and always should be like...
So here is link to the best part from way back.
ua-cam.com/video/-HSAXTL4RRk/v-deo.html
sorry, got kinda mushy ....
But still hope that that may be for some folk...
Still in love with the idea... ya know?
Yep! Shel Silverstein writing and poetry has been having that effect on people for decades!
Same
Playing it live, it never fails to get a laugh.
They always start with the look of "WTF is this guy saying," but by the end they come around.
I had a fish back my freshman year of college and he no joke “danced” to this song! Would get all swimmy up by the surface more active than any time he normally was! Miss my little “Amadeus” fish dude
Yay weird dude
Why on earth is this not on Spotify
Omg same
It definitely used to be, I found it there about 6 years ago
I’m here in 2020. Same.
Just searched for it, not there. That's why I'm here. :(
It's on Canadian Spoofy, listened to it last night on there.
This is the most charming song I've ever heard.
Great Big Sea does a good version of this, but the lyrics were from a poem Shel Silverstein wrote for Playboy Magazine. Seriously, look it up.
Didn't Shel also write the youth books of poems like "Where the Sidewalk Ends"? I grew up on those, and that name rings a bell.
That's him all right. He's also responsible for writing the song "A Boy Named Sue" made popular through Johnny Cash.
and Sylvia mother by Dr. hook. he also wrote a poem called the smoke off. he definitely wrote more than kids poems.
Uncle Shelby's ABZ book! Off color humor for adults that many kids won't detect.
and the unicorn song made popular by the irish rovers
Been singing this song for 45 years.
You must be exhausted...
Pandora decided to play this during a playing of Uncharted Waters.. It was the best timing ever. :)
Ah I love this! It makes me think of the song The Mermaid by Great Big Sea ❤
here fishy fishy fishy :D :D :D
i dont know why i like this song but i do dig it
Holy shit, this is one of the funniest songs I've ever heard!
ablethreefourbravo the sick note by "The dubliners"
ablethreefourbravo The Kissin' of the Sheriff's Wife by Darby O'Gill
An amusing tale, but not outright funny. Sorry TheBucketheadfan1991 :-(
The Scotsman is entertaining too.
Have you ever heard the scotsman or another irish drinking song 😂😂
The Mermaid
Great Big Sea
When I was a lad in a fishing town
Me old man said to me
You can spend your life, your jolly life
Just sailing on the sea
You can search the world for pretty girls
Til your eyes are weak and dim
But don't go searching for a mermaid, son
If you don't know how to swim
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her face it was a work of art
I love that girl with all my heart
But I only like the upper part
I did not like the tail
I signed onto a sailing ship
My very first day at sea
I seen a mermaid in the waves
A-reaching out to me
Come live with me in the sea, said she
Down on the ocean floor
And I'll show you a million wondrous things
You've never seen before
So over I jumped and she pulled me down
Down to her seaweed bed
And a pillow made of a tortoise shell
She placed beneath my head
She fed me shrimp and caviar
Upon a silver dish
From her head to her waist
It was just my taste
But the rest of her was a fish
'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her face it was a work of art
I love that girl with all my heart
But I only like the upper part
I did not like the tail
But then one day she swam away
So I sang to the clams and the whales
Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair
And the silver shine of her scales
But then her sister, she swam by
Set my heart awhirl
'Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
But her bottom part was a girl
Yes her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her legs they are a work of art
I love that girl with all my heart
And I don't give a damn about the upper part
'Cause that's how I get my tail
Songwriters: Jim Friedman / Shel Silverstein
The Mermaid lyrics © T.R.O. Inc.
yes, but they are hard to copy from there, or easily read back- I put it up for someone besides you
MajBunl of course its hard you can read spoken word? That's awesome guy!
This makes so much more sense given Shel Silverstein had a part in writing this.
I remember this getting air play in the 70s. Nice memories, thanks.
really! i only heard this a few years ago and it always seemed like a kitschy 2000s song
Yes we had a different version on the jukebox in our café in the 70s. I used to listen to it over and over
Just as an FYI, this song doesn't belong to Great Big Sea, it is just performed by them. The original was written by Shel Silverstein for Playboy Magazine in the late 60's as a poem.
🌈 The More You Know
"it doesn't belong to great big sea"
What a stupid way of wording "Shel Silverstein, prolific poet, songwriter and humorist, wrote the lyrics to this". Incredibly stupid.
"boy named sue" doesn't belong to Johnny Cash by this broken way of writing.
@@medes5597 The difference is, there are MANY bands who also have recorded versions of this song. When the OP puts specifically in their description, "I do not own the song what so ever, it belongs to the wonderful band Great Big Sea!" it's not pedantry to call it out. Unless you didn't read that part and were just trying to find a way to insult my comment?
@@isaacwisniewski3857 this version of the song, is indeed owned by the band in terms of copyright regardless of anything else. It's still a very stupid way to make the point that Shel Silverstein wrote it and I stand by it being dumb.
The song does indeed belong to them in a legal sense. Which is clearly what's being referred to. Not any creative ownership. Still dumb.
I love how you can hear his utter disappointment in the "...but the rest of her was a fish".
Like his shoulders and face dropped. 😆
This is... AMAZING.
scared off by a little fish tail. Coward!
dudddddeeeee you shouldve thought smart before you start and at the intruduction to the new mermaid switched it to albumn cover wouldve been hilarious
Hey man, whatever floats yer boat
So the second girl has green leg hair?
+C.J. Stanbridge Whatever helps you sleep at night.
N1CK0FDEST1NY OK. Sheesh.
+N1CK0FDEST1NY Whetever KELPS you sleep at night
Little bit higher than that...
jjmblue7 hahahahaha I was thinking the same thing
I wanna hear this song in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, as a satirical thing or something
As background music from a conch shell as she attempts to seduce jack sparrow
I know what you mean lol
Sorry bro, but I don’t think that is happening anymore 😕
At 0.5x speed, I don't know if it's hilarious or terrifying (all those deep, underwater-y reverberating noises in the background) XD
K.E.L. • he sounds absolutely shitfaced at 0.5 speed lol
I tried this and holy jesus, it's funny. Would also recommend 1.75x speed
I really love this song.
Love it!!
I'm so glad I added this to my mermay song list 😂
A pretty jolly song to sing while yer crew is minding the sails
best song ever
here fishy fishy fishy lol
This is easily there best song
Very cool I saved this one thanks
I love this song
Holy freak I freaking love y'all
#MERMAIDPUSS
Is this sung by Belethor?
This song is the only reason why I want to learn the guitar
Love it
I’m pissed this isn’t on Spotify
Oi oi, could you post the pictures you used? The artists etc.
Best song ever :D
I still listen to this song once a week lol
I love this song 🤣🤣 my uncle sings me a more appropriate version of this song 🥺 great hearing the proper song 😭🤣
Love great big sea.
Какая красивая картина
Head to the waste was just my taste XD
+Random Duck Waist
+Phillip M
Who are we to judge what he's into ;)
+Merky Water LOL!!!
I first heard this song over 50 years ago.
Funny thing, i loved the picture of the mermaid with the ship, so i looked it up on google to steal it for my background and i was laughing because the original photo doesnt have the mermaids breast in the picture. I think the person who did this song edited it. It does look great lol i couldnt tell it wasnt there before and yes i stlil used the photo! Ima girl and i dont care about naked girls. But I was still surprised haha
HELP SOMEONE WHAT IS THAT SONG CALLED WITH LIKE THE LADY SINGING LIKE OHHH OHHH OOOO, I FORGOT THE NAME OF IT HELP
This song is my childhood
why cant i see this on spotifyyyyyy
The fry paradox in song form
Here fishy, fishy, fishy, show me a fin.
WHAT DID THE BLIND MAN SAY WHEN HE WALKED BY THE SEAFOOD MARKET? gOOD MORNING LADIES...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤭🤭🤭
Could you imagine the centaur version of this.
I listened to a pirate sing this at an SCA event last night
Cool
OMFG comments on a GBS song?!?!?! Never thought id see this again. lol wtf happened?
Actually laughed out loud.
I just see fry running away form the lost city of atlanta
Christopher Columbus and his manatee 😭😂😂😂😂😂
That's a how I get my tail😂😂
Well then
Recommended when the
1:17 she wasn't feeding you caviar, she wanted children
Bahaha that’s hilarious
Se busca Sirena para Sireno, mermaid wanted!! XD.
Here fishy fishy
Who's here in 2020?
“Here fishy fishy fishy”
Snort, I forgot how this ended. XD
This is so goofy
Lmfao this song summerizes how stupid the people that I am dealing with are.
🤣👍🏻❤
Lol. What did the kid look like?
LMAO!
An assman's theme.
Funny asf
too funny...
But the tail makes it better.
XD
This is so funny
I wouldn’t mind the tail. Also mermaids get confused with sirens. They are completely different. Look at the sirens in Greek mythology, they are nothing alike. However mermaids aren’t exactly known for being innocent.
here fishy fishy fishy... show me a fin...
Sign a document
here fishy fishy... come put the worm in your mouth.
Lol
This is not Great Big Sea!
Came here from Deviant art :)
You know I've always wondered about this because wouldn't a mermaid be a mammal and thus have sex like a dolphin or whale?
Why would other water mammals matter in this regard? There's lots of weird animals who mate in idiosyncratic ways compared to their closest relativea in the same environment.
@@medes5597 basically because of the way they have sex. Dolphins don’t have sex the same way fish do, and if his complaint about the first girl was not getting any then that’s on him.
Long story short, f#ck fish... literally
Ted, what the hell
All I have to say is lol
Hilarious!
da fuck? lol
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masha and the bear
Anyone else thought that the song was about falling in love with a girl who had dated afew bad apples only for the guy to start his own affair with her sister
I mean, think it, but it is just a song about fucking a fish
What about asexuals still looking for a romantic relationship? Huh? Regular mermaids and mermen work perfect for that!
Can someone do me a solid and make a tribute to mero from monster musume with this song I really love that girl with all my heart and I don’t give a dame about her tail because that how I gat my tail yes her hair was pink a sea shells her skin was Farr and pail o how I love the ruby shine of hers scales and I don’t give a dame about her lower part because that how I get my tail