The Royal George- Tattrie (NS) pre1928 Mackenzie
[From: Ballads and Sea Songs From Nova Scotia- Mackenzie; 1928]
THE MERMAID
(Child, No. 289)
This slight fragment is all that I have been able to recover in Nova Scotia of the true folk rendition of "The Mermaid." The ballad is well known there and elsewhere as a college song, and it has been printed times without number in broadsides and song-books both in Great Britain and America.
"The Royal George." From the singing and recitation of Ephraim Tattrie, Tatamagouche, Colchester County.
1 "O I thought more of my greasy pots and pans
As you did of your three wives,
All three, all three, all three,
As you done of all your three wives."
2. O the Royal, George turned round three times,
And down to the bottom she did go,
She did go, she did go, she did go,
All down to the bottom of the sea.