I’ve inadvertently stumbled upon a Mermaid’s Tale: The
Legend of Naka the sea serpent, and the beautiful mermaid Marisa. The discovery
that I was magnetized to a place of
mermaids, across the water from Burma, touches something archetypal, ancestral and deep inside me and makes me
weep.
So the story goes, Fierce Naka falls deeply in love with the beautiful Marisa...until she perishes in a monsoon storm. Naka is heartbroken. Marisa's spirit is rumoured to reside in the oldest of rubber trees, near the Old Siam restaurant by the sand.
And so, the beginnings of some songs form… “As I gaze across
the water of the Andaman Sea, something very ancient stirs in me”. Yes, it is strange being so close to Burma, yet not going to that ravaged, ancestral place, only now coming into its freedom. I remember my Granny, see her in the faces of some of the women here. And it makes me weep.
The Ballad of Naka and Marisa
Naka, the bold sea dragonsnake
Swam out of his cave
And saw Marisa, the beautiful maiden
-- Washing her hair in the bay
He said "ohh lala, what a pearl!
Be my swishy-tailed fishy girl
Won't you come and live with me
In my cave under the sea?"
And she said "ay ay ay, what a dish!
I like a guy who's half dragon, half fish
And so their love began
On a beach in Old Siam!
Marisa and Naka spent their days
Frolicking under the waves
Had themselves a loving feast
This beauty and her beast!
They
Swam together hand in hand
Ate bananas on the sand
And so their love grew strong
By the beach near old Patong!
But then a dark monsoon
Brought clouds of doom
And the rain fell all around
The waves rolled in, she broke her fin
And lovely Marisa drowned!
Naka woke up after the storm
Searched for his darlin' but she was gone
He cried "it cannot be!"
And his tears rolled into the sea
He said " I thought our love would never end
Now I've lost my girlfriend!"
He gave up being brave
And he slipped- back - into his cave!
But they were ooh lala, quite a pair
Sometimes life just isn't fair
And that is the end
Of my tale from Old Thailand
The tragic story of a snake who loved a mermaif
In- Old - Si- am! (yeah!)
Naka & Marisa
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