Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me - Mississippi John Hurt

Blues all on the ocean

Blues all in the air

Can’t stay here no longer

I have no steamship fare

When my earthly trials are over

Carry my body out in the sea

Save all the undertaker bills

Let the mermaids flirt with me

I do not work for pleasure

Earthly peace I’ll see no more

The only reason I work at all

Is to drive the world from my door

My wife controls our happy home

A sweetheart I can not find

The only thing I can call my own

Is a troubled and a worried mind

Blues all in my body

My darling has forsaken me

If I ever see her face again

I have to swim across the sea

Blues all on the ocean

Blues all in the air

Can’t stay here no longer

I have no steamship fare