Don't sing love songs

You'll wake my mother

She's sleeping here right by my side

In her right hand, a silver dagger

She says that I can't be your bride

All men are false

Says my mother

They'll tell you wicked

Lovin' lies

And then the very next evening

They'll court another

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 maid he's loved and wronged, ohhh



Go court another 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