By Brenda Wooton

February 10, 1928 – March 11, 1994 (66 years)

Medium: (song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Ig-85bZfw&ab_channel=BrendaWootton-Topic

Summary: A mermaid hears the singing of a pretty boy and bodes him to join her in the sea, away from the troubles of the land.

Transcript:

I heard thee sing in the church above the ocean

I heard thee sing, my Pretty Boy

Far from my jaunty palaces,

I have come to thee my Pretty Boy

I to thee, will give my maiden virtues

I to thee my maiden joy

Sleep within my ocean land

Sleep with me my Pretty Boy, and live with me

Far away from earthly cares above;

Far away from earthly cares above

There is no Death any sweeter than my living

There is no death where I belong

Far from the world of dying men

Come now, away with me, my Pretty Boy

Thou shalt be a prince among the princes

Thou shalt be a prince of high degree

Oh, man of beauty

Oh men and maid, both of high degree

Come away with me, beneath the sea,

Come away with me, beneath the sea

Green are mine eyes, as the waters of the ocean

Red, mine hair, my Pretty Boy

White, mine breasts up on the waves

All I will give to thee my Pretty Boy

Soft, mine arms that I shalt put around thee,

Soft too my lips that I shalt yield

Deep within our Ocean bed

Deep within, my Pretty Boy, just you and I

Far away from Earthly cares above

Far away from earthly cares above

Far, far away

Far away