[Verse 1]
Don't sing love songs
You'll wake my mother
She's sleeping here right by my side
In her right hand is a silver dagger
She says that I can't be your bride
[Verse 2]
All men are fools
So says my mother
They'll tell you again
Love and lies
And then they'll go
And court some other
Leave you alone to pine inside
[Verse 3]
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
[Verse 4]
Go court another tender maiden
In hopes that she might be your wife
For I've been warned so I decided
I'll sleep alone all of my life, ohh
[Outro]
Beware, beware, a silver dagger
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