I Never Will Marry
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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One morning I rambled down by the sea shore
The wind it did whistle and the waters did roar
I heard some fair maiden give a pitiful cry
It sounded so lonesome, it swept off on high
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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 He's the one I adore
I never will see him, No never no more."
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The shells in the ocean shall be my death-bed
While the fish in deep water swim over my head
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She cast her fair body in the water so deep
And closed her pretty blue eyes forever to sleep
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"I Never Will Marry" is an American folk song adapted from British roots.<br> It was collected by Alan Lomax from Texas Gladden in Virginia.<br> It was recorded by The Carter Family, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger,<br> Linda Ronstadt and others.<br> It was printed in Pete Seeger's Bells of Rhymney (1964),<br> Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society (1940) and<br> Lomax's Folk Songs of North America (1960).<br> It also appears in Roxburghe Ballads as the broadside "The Sorrowful Lady's Complaint",<br> The Bodleian Collection, ca. 1819-1844 and<br> Roud Folksong Index #466 as "The Lovers’s Lament for Her Sailor".<br>
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