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
She'll tell you wicked loving lies And then they'll go
and court some other
Leave you alone
to pine and sigh
My daddy is a handsome devil
He's got a chain five miles long On every link a heart does dangle
Of another man
he's loved and wronged
Go court some other tender maiden
In hopes that she might be your wife
For I've been warned,
so I've decided To sleep alone all of my life
