Right, good! Now I shall teach you a song, lad! 'S about a mermaid, and it goes like this:

When I was a lad in a fishin' town, me old man said to me:
"You can spend your life, your jolly life, just sailing on the sea
You can search the world for pretty girls til your eyes grow weak and dim,
But don't go searchin' for a mermaid son if you don't know how to swim!"

[He'll try to whistle the refrain so that the Traveler can learn it and join in.]