I'd like to be - like a fish in sea
and grow me long and scaly mermaid's tail
I'd comb my hair - so long and fair
and wear a top of finest knit of scale -
I'd then swim the butterfly -
Leave Mike Phelps - far off behind
I'd like to be - like a fish in sea
and tend a Mermaid's Garden in the deep

I'd hang around - and socialize
with dolphins and with fish of coloured stocks -
All jewelry which I would wear
would be both corals and seabed precious rocks
In the evening I would polish my scales
and then go out - hanging with whales
I'd like to be - like a fish in sea
and tend a Mermaid's Garden in the deep

I'd like to eat - the green seaweed
as salad with the tasty sashimi
I'd share those joys - with the human boys
who'd come to visit my place and please me -
But alas! There's a problem for life -
Would he like a fish for his wife?
I'd change to be - a human being
and leave my Mermaid's Garden in the deep -
And leave my Mermaid's Garden in the deep!