One morning as I rambled...
All down the sea shore
The wind, it did whistle
and the waters did roar.
I heard a fair damsel
make a beautiful sound,
it sounded so lonesome
In the waters around.
I never will marry
Nor be no man's wife.
I expect to stay single
All the days of my life.
The shells in the ocean
Shall be my death bed
The fish in deep waters
Swim over my head.
She plunged her fair body
in the waters so deep
She closed her blue eyes
In the waters too sweet.
My love's gone and left me
The one I adore,
She's gone and I never
Will see her anymore.
Chorus:
I never will marry
Nor be no man's wife.
I expect to stay single
all the days of my life.
The shells in the ocean
Shall be my death bed
The fish in deep waters
Swim over my head.
All down the sea shore
The wind, it did whistle
and the waters did roar.
I heard a fair damsel
make a beautiful sound,
it sounded so lonesome
In the waters around.
I never will marry
Nor be no man's wife.
I expect to stay single
All the days of my life.
The shells in the ocean
Shall be my death bed
The fish in deep waters
Swim over my head.
She plunged her fair body
in the waters so deep
She closed her blue eyes
In the waters too sweet.
My love's gone and left me
The one I adore,
She's gone and I never
Will see her anymore.
Chorus:
I never will marry
Nor be no man's wife.
I expect to stay single
all the days of my life.
The shells in the ocean
Shall be my death bed
The fish in deep waters
Swim over my head.