She Never Will Marry

Mp3: She Never Will Marry

“She Never Will Marry” is an adaptation of some very old ballads.

THE LOVER’S LAMENT FOR HER SAILOR

As I was walking along the seashore,

Where the breeze it blew cool, and the billows did round,

Where the wind and the waves and the waters run

I heard a shrill voice make a sorrowful sound.

Chorus:

Crying, O my love’s gone, whom I do adore,

He’s gone and I will never see him more.

I tarried awhile still listening near,

And heard her complain for the loss of her dear;

Which grieved me sadly to hear her complain

Crying, he is gone and I will never see him again.

She appeared like some goddess, and dressed like a queen,

She’s the fairest of creatures that ever was seen.

I told her I’d marry her myself, if she pleas’d,

But the answer she made me, was my love is in the seas.

I never will marry nor be any man’s bride,


I choose to live single, all the days of my life,

For the loss of my sailor I deeply deplore,

As he’s lost in the seas I shall ne’er see him more.

I will go down to my dearest that lies in the deep

And with kind embraces I will him intreat,

I will kiss his cold lips like the coral so red,

I will close up his eyes that have been so long dead.

The shells of the oysters shall be my lover’s bed,

And the shrimps of the sea shall swim over his head,


Then she plunged her fair body right into the deep,

And closed her fair eyes in the water to sleep.

Lyrics:

[G] They say that [D] love’s a [G] gentle thing

But it’s [C] only [D] brought her [G] pain

For the [C] only [D] man she [G] ever [Em] loved

Has [Am] gone on the [D] midnight [G] train

She never will [D] marry

She’ll be no man’s [C] wife


She expect to live [G] single

All the [D] days of her [G] life

Well the train pulled out

The whistle blew

With a long and a lonesome moan

He’s gone he’s gone

Like the morning dew

And left her all alone

She never will marry


She’ll be no man’s wife

She expect to live single

All the days of her life

Well there’s many a change in the winter wind

And a change in the clouds and Byrds

There’s many a change in a young man’s heart

But never a change in hers

She never will marry

She’ll be no man’s wife


She expect to live single

All the days of her life