Silver Dagger

(Dolly Parton)



Don't sing love songs you'll wake my mother

She's sleeping here right by my side

In her right hand is a silver dagger

She says that I can't be your bride.



All men are fools so says my mother

They'll tell you wicked lovin' and lies

The very next evening they'll court someother

Leave you alone to pine and sigh.



My daddy is a handsome devil

He's got a chain five miles long

From every link a heart does dangle

Of another maid he's loved and wronged, ohhh.



--- Instrumental ---



Go court another tender maiden

And hope that she might be your wife

For I've been warned so I've decided

I'll sleep alone all of my life, oh.



Beware, beware, a silver dagger...