The words of this song are the recollections of a sailor, Henry Hudson, sung to a tune I wrote.
lyrics
"This morning one of our companie looking over boord saw a mermaid, and calling up some of the companie to see her, one more came up and by that time shee was come close to the ships side, looking earnestly on the men: a little after a sea came and overturned her: from the navill upward her backe and breasts were like a womans, as they say that saw her; her body as big as one of us; her skin very white, and long hair hanging downe behind of colour blacke: in her going downe they saw her tayle, which was like the tayle of a porposse and speckled like a macrell."
credits
from Broken by Breakers,
track released April 1, 2012
Words adapted from Henry Hudson, music by Hugh Tweedie
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