I Never Will Marry
From the singing of Carrie Milliner and the Bobbin
Family.
I Never Will Marry
(Traditional)
Arranged by Chloe and Jason Roweth.
Well known English/Irish traditional song adopted readily in America and, it seems, Australia as well. Carrie comments that later recorded versions of songs often frustrated her attempts to remember the old tune.
One morning as I rambled down by the sea-shore,
The wind it did whistle and the waters did roar.
I heard a fair damsel make a pitiful sound,
She sounded so lonesome, on the waters around.
Chorus:
I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife,
I expect to live single all the days of my life.
The shells in the ocean will be my death bed,
The fish in deep water swim over my head,
She cast her fair body on the waters so deep,
She closed her blue eyes in the water to sleep.
My love's gone and left me, the one I adore,
He's gone and I'll never see him anymore.