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We skipped the light fandango    
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor           
I was feeling kinda seasick                         
But the crowd called out for more               
The room was humming harder            
As the ceiling flew away                           
When we called out for another drink 
The waiter brought a tray                                 

And so it was that later                                     
As the miller told his tale                 
That her face, as first just ghostly       
Turned a whiter shade of pale           

She said, there's no reason                          
And the truth is plain to see                             
But I wandered through my playing cards        
And would not let her be                                         
One of sixteen vestal virgins                     
Who were leaving for the coast                          
And although my eyes were open                    
They might have just as we've been closed      

She said, I 'm home on shore leave                  
Though in truth we were at sea                     
So I took her by the looking glass                
And forced her to agree                                        
Saying, you must be the mermaid                 
Who took Neptune for a ride                                    
But she smiled at me so sadly                               
That my anger straightway died                      

If music be the food of love                                 
Then laughter is its queen                                   
And likewise if behind is in front                             
Then dirt in truth is clean                                    
My mouth by then like cardboard                                               
Seemed to slip straight through my head 
So we crash-dived straightway quickly 
And attack the ocean bed