"I Never Will Marry" is an American folk song adapted from British roots. It was collected by Alan Lomax from Texas Gladden in Virginia. It was recorded by The Carter Family, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Linda Ronstadt and others. It was printed in Pete Seeger's Bells of Rhymney (1964), Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society (1940) and Lomax's Folk Songs of North America (1960). It also appears in Roxburghe Ballads as the broadside "The Sorrowful Lady's Complaint", The Bodleian Collection, ca. 1819-1844 and Roud Folksong Index #466 as "The Lovers’s Lament for Her Sailor".