What's It Like to Be a Mermaid?

They just don't understand
 It's not enough for me
 Oh, I wish I could show them what I found
 A note in a bottle from a little girl
 And she wonders about mermaids
 Just like I wonder about humans
 I found a little bottle bobbing in the water
 Carried on a wave
 Inside there was a note that a little girl wrote
 This is what she had to say
 "Mermaid, mermaid, tell me true
 What's it feel like to be you
 What's it like to be a mermaid
 A little lady from down under the sea
 Do you go to school with fishes
 Do you have to do the dishes
 Are you like me
 What's it like to be a mermaid
 Tell me a little of your life in the blue
 Is there music, are there dances
 Are there undersea romances
 Do you wonder from down under like I do about you"
 Growing up a daughter of the underwater
 Is like a fantasy
 But I am curious too, dreamin' just like you do
 About the world beyond the beach
 Well, here's a mermaid's point of view
 For those of you who wish they knew
 What's it like to be a mermaid
 A little lady from down under the sea
 We go dancing with the dolphin
 Riding waves and whale watching in the sea breeze
 What's it like to be a mermaid
 Well, it's delightful living life in the blue
 But though we go to school with fishes
 Eat from shells instead of dishes
 We're really not so very, very different from you
 What's it like to be a mermaid
 Our ways are not as far apart as they seem
 We comb our hair with coral
 Wear a splash of ocean floral and we eat weed
 What's it like to be a mermaid
 Well, it's delightful living life in the blue
 We go swimming with the tuna in a tropical lagoon-a
 Chasing manatee and mantas but our folks don't understand us
 When we kick up a commotion at the bottom of the ocean
 We're really not so very, very different from you
 Ooh, what's it like to be a mermaid
 What's it like to be a mermaid
 Ooh, what's it like to be a mermaid
 (What's it like to be a mermaid) gosh, I just remembered
 Tonight is the mermaid's ball
 (What's it like to be a mermaid) oh
 But I can get ready for that later
 (What's it like) first
 (To be a mermaid) I've got to answer the note I've found