Mermaids

            There was a young man,

            His name was Redley

He had kind little eyes

But his smile was deadly

This clever young man

With his chilling grin

Took children home

And took off their skin

He cast it aside

And instead gave them scales

And once they had stuck

He began to sew on their tails

Redley would smile

Oh, how he would grin

When he took off their arms

And gave them two fins

He wouldn’t give them back

He was mad, you’ll agree

But you should’ve seen his grin

As he tossed them into the sea

‘Goodbye, my little ones!’

Oh, how he’d bellow

As he left them forever

To live with their mermaid fellows

R