Captain Jack was a young man when he went to sea

All me young ladies go and kiss him goodbye

He was barely a child of twenty and three

Oh tell him young ladies, go and tell him for me

He can marry the mermaid that lives in the sea



I was faithful and waited when he went to sea

All me young ladies go and kiss him goodbye

For I knew we’d be wedded my Jackie and me

Oh tell him young ladies, go and tell him for me

He can marry the mermaid that lives in the sea



Captain Jack met a mermaid when he went to sea

All me young ladies go and kiss him goodbye

In the blink of an eye he forgot about me

Oh tell him young ladies, go and tell him for me

He can marry the mermaid that lives in the sea



I was less in his eyes than this beautiful maid

I did love and was true, this is how he repaid

Then he sends back his crew with this question for me:

“May I marry this mermaid that lives in the sea?”



What would you do?



Now a girl of the land has two legs you can see

And the treasures between them defined easily

But a mermaid’s a fish from the waist to the ground

And in fish such treasure has never been found



So I said, “Yes.”



Now my Jackie has left in the teeth of the gale,

Ore to marry some sea-slut with crabs on her tail

Now he wails on the rocks for he’s found much to late

That the creatures of ocean and land cannot mate!



Captain Jack is an Asshole it’s easy to see!

All me young ladies tell him, “Piss off and die”

For he left all his gold and his best friend with me,

Oh tell him young ladies, go and tell him for me

He can freeze off his balls in the cold northern sea

Oh tell him young ladies, go and tell him for me

He can freeze off his balls in the cold northern sea