I never will marry (Listen to sample)

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1. One morning as I rambled all down the seashore,

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the wind it did whistle, and the waters did roar.

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I heard a fair damsel make a pitiful sound,

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it sounded so lonesome in the waters around.

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2. I never will marry, or be no man's wife,

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I expect to live single all the days of my life.

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The shells in the ocean shall be my death bed,

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the fish in deep water swim over my head.

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3. She plunged her fair body in the waters so deep,

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she closed her blue eyes in the waters to sleep.

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My love's gone and left me, the one I adore,

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she's gone where I never will see her anymore.

+ repeat verse 2

(capo 2nd)

(The Carter Family)