Calling all mermaids

If you were a mermaid in the mermaid parade
Would you wear your crown and an iridescent tail?
Would you dive in kelp or hide behind the coral
If you were a mermaid in the mermaid parade

Calling all mermaids

If you were a mermaid in the mermaid parade
Would you swim in synchrony deep down under the bay?
Dive in and join us in the mermaid parade
We can twirl through breakers and surf in on the waves

And we’ll drum drum drum on a seashell drum
Play pipes in the band, ride seahorses in the sand
Come on and swim this party won’t last long
Soon all our mer friends will be off and gone

Calling all mermaids
Calling all mermaids

If you were a mermaid in the mermaid parade
Would you play your song on a tiny tambourine you made
Would you tell the sea folk a story or two
Of life under the waves, of life out in the blue?

And we’ll drum drum drum on a seashell drum
Play pipes in the band, ride seahorses in the sand
Come on and swim this party won’t last long
Soon all our mer friends will be off and gone

If you were a mermaid
In the mermaid parade (Calling all mermaids)
If you were a mermaid
In the mermaid parade (Calling all mermaids)
Calling all mermaids

Lai la lai lai la lai lai la lai
Lai la lai lai la lai lai la lai
Lai la lai lai la lai lai la lai
Lai la lai lai la lai lai la lai

Calling all mermaids
Calling all mermaids
Calling all mermaids

© Claudia Robin Gunn