File this as aÿ20new one, "The Mermaid", after "Ship's in the Harbor."

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From: Jeff Mach <td@eden.rutgers.edu>Date: Sat, 22 Jun 96 12:03:06 EDT
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Subject: The Clean Song (anyone know a variation?)
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	Hi, all!  I've heard a variation of the tune below that I liked much
better...if anyone has those lyrics, I'd be much obliged to see 'em...

		-Jeff M.
		RU Rocky Horror Guy

	"The Clean Song"

	There was a young sailor who looked through the glass, 
	Looked through the glass,
	Looked through the glass,
	And spied a young mermaid with scales on her

	island where sea gulls flew over their nests
	She combed the long hair that hung over her
	
	Shoulders and caused her to tickle and itch
	The sailor cried out, "There's a beautiful

	"Mermaid a-sitting out there on the rocks!"
	The crew came a-runnin', all grabbbing their

	Glasses and croweded foour deep to the rail,
	All eager to share in this fine piece of

	News which the captain soon heard from the watch
	He tied down the wheel and he reached for his

	Crackers and cheese which he kept near the door
	In case he might come on a ravenous

	Mermaid, he knew he must use all his wits
	Crying "Through out a line and we'll lasso her
	
	"Flippers, and then we will finally find
	If mermaids are better before or 

	"Be brave my good fellows," the Captain then said
	With fortune we'll break through her mer-maiden-"

	Heading to starboard they tacked with dispatch
	And caught that fair mermaid just under her
	
	Elbows and hustled her down below decks
	Where each took a turn at her feminine

	Setting her free at the end of the farce,
	She splashed to the waves, landing flat on her

	After a while one man noticed some scabs
	And soon they broke out with the pox and the

	Scratching with fury and cursing with spleen
	This song may be dull, but it's frightfully clean.


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