I Never Will Marry

(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...