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


All men are false
Says 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


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


Go 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