Mermay 2026 – Day Twenty – Sea Shanty

Mermay 2026 – Day Twenty – Sea Shanty

 “One Friday morn when we set sail,

Not very far from land,

We there did espy a fair pretty maid

With a comb and a glass in her hand, her hand, her hand,

With a comb and a glass in her hand.

While the raging seas did roar,

And the stormy winds did blow,

While we jolly sailor-boys were up into the top,

And the land-lubbers lying down below, below, below,

And the land-lubbers lying down below.”

Today’s prompt was self-explanatory. The only challenge was picking WHICH Shanty to use.

I went with “The Mermaid“ from Child Ballads #289.

This one took a while, with both the ship and the choppy water being big challenges.