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you mark my words. And we're the bait.
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I heard it said a kiss from a mermaid
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protects a sailor from drowning.
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Don't be a fool! Mermaids are all female, son,
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and lovely as a dream of heaven.
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But when it comes time to churn butter, so to speak,
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they snatch a sailor out of a boat
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or off the deck of a ship, have their way,
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and then the sailors are pulled to bottom and drowned and eaten.
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Or, sometimes, the other way around.
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- Sing. - What?
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They like to hear singing.