Mermaids' Run

With the mainsail set and the jib run full 
set to sea I did
For there are treasures there with 
flaxen hair and for one I will bid
Wind blow me straight stars set my 
course the briny beckons me
The tales I've heard bout a mermaids' 
curve will draw me undersea

There's a stalkin moon peerin through 
the clouds lightin up me chart
And the dancin sea lookin up at me 
twinkles lite within this heart
The breeze not only fills the sails 
but sings to me a tune
When we fall away you will come to stay 
afloat on love's lagoon

Bound away on the ocean's waves 
headed toward the sun
Ship and I just slide on by 
makin time on mermaids run
Thoughts they please and then they tease 
like the pennant flappin on the mast
They say here she is and then there she goes 
how long did you think it would last

But the bounty of the timeless sea 
has give me this chance
And who's to say with a mermaid play 
and you'll not find romance
The stories go and the sailors know 
not a sea nymph's been a wife
So I look around and then I say 
what else is new in life

By panther811
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