# The Mermaid’s Song, Hob.XXVIa:25

- Music: Joseph Haydn (died 1809)
- Words: Anne Hunter (died 1821)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6472842

## The words

Now the dancing sunbeams play, On the green  
and glassy sea; Come and I will lead the way  
Where the pearly treasures be.  
Come and I will lead the way, Where the pearly  
treasures be: where the pearly treasures be,  
where the pearly treasures be.  
Come with me, and we will go,  
Where the rocks of coral grow, of coral grow.  
Follow, follow, follow me, follow,  
follow, follow me.  
Come with me, and we will go Where the rocks of  
coral grow. where the rocks of coral grow.  
Follow, follow, follow me, follow,  
follow, follow me.  
Come, be- hold what treasures lie Far below  
the rolling waves, Riches hid from human eye,  
Dimly shine in Ocean's caves.  
Ebbing tides bear no delay, Stormy winds are  
far away, stormy winds are far away,  
stormy winds are far away.  
Come with me, and we will go,  
Where the rocks of coral grow, of coral grow.  
Follow, follow, follow me, follow,  
follow, follow me.  
Come with me, and we will go Where the rocks of  
coral grow. where the rocks of coral grow.  
Follow, follow, follow me, follow,  
follow, follow me.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).