Silver Dagger

[Verse 1]

Don't sing love songs, you’ll wake my mother

She's sleeping here, right by my side

And in her right hand, a silver dagger

She says that I can't be your bride

[Verse 2]

"All men are false," said my mother

"They’ll tell you wicked, loving lies

And the very next evening, they'll court another

Leave you alone to pine and sigh"

[Verse 3]

My daddy, he's a handsome devil

He's got a chain five miles long

And on every link, a heart does dangle

Of another maid he's loved and wronged

[Verse 4]

So court another tender maiden

And hope that she will be your wife

For I have been warned and I've decided

To sleep alone all of my life