The Doom Bar - Loveridge, The Longest Johns

In Padstow Bay where the mermaids dwell

There’s a bar of sand we compare to hell

Toss you around an unforgiving swell

And it’ll drag you down below

It was put there by a mermaid fair

Who was killed as she sat in the morning air

All you sailors better be ware

Sitting in the Bay of 'Stow

And the doom bar rules the bay

She will take your breath away

Tides times are getting worse

We all fear the mermaid’s curse

Whilst hunting seals Tom Yeo did stray

To a merry-maid sat down by the bay

Beauty stole his breath away

And his heart was filled with love

But such a fool as him she would never wed

If he couldn’t have her living, then he’d see her dead

The gun barrel flashed and the sea ran red

And the storm could raged above

And the doom bar rules the bay

She will take your breath away

Tides times are getting worse

We all fear the mermaid’s curse

In the throws of death out of her hand

Flew raging gales and golden sand

Filled the bay from land to land

And the doom bar, she was born

Well Tom Yeo, for your vanity

I will curse this quiet strech of sea

The price you’ll pay for the life of me

Is a life of pain and scorn

And the doom bar rules the bay

She will take your breath away

Tides times are getting worse

We all fear the mermaid’s curse

The doom bar rules the bay

She will take your breath away

Tides times are getting worse

We all fear the mermaid’s curse

We all fear the mermaid’s curse

Tides times are getting worse