(A.P. Carter)
One morning as I rambled
Down by the sea shore
The wind it did whistle
And the waters did roar.
I heard a fair maiden
Make a pitiful sound
It sounded so lonesome
In the waters around.
I never will marry
I'll be no man's wife
I expect to live single
All the days of my life.
My love's gone and left me
The one I adore
She's gone where
I'll never see her anymore.
She plunged her fair body
In the waters so deep
She closed her pretty blue eyes
In the waters to sleep.
I never will marry
I'll be no man's wife
I expect to live single
All the days of my life.
The shells in the ocean
Shall be my death bed
The fish in deep water
Swim over my head...
One morning as I rambled
Down by the sea shore
The wind it did whistle
And the waters did roar.
I heard a fair maiden
Make a pitiful sound
It sounded so lonesome
In the waters around.
I never will marry
I'll be no man's wife
I expect to live single
All the days of my life.
My love's gone and left me
The one I adore
She's gone where
I'll never see her anymore.
She plunged her fair body
In the waters so deep
She closed her pretty blue eyes
In the waters to sleep.
I never will marry
I'll be no man's wife
I expect to live single
All the days of my life.
The shells in the ocean
Shall be my death bed
The fish in deep water
Swim over my head...
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