Tarkio Never Will Marry lyrics

One morning
I rambled down by the sea shore
And the wind it did whistle
And the waves they did roar

I heard some fair maiden
Give a terrible cry
And it sounded so lonely
And it swept up so high

Said William to Molly
If you will agree
To give your consent, love
And marry me

For my mind is to marry
And never to part
For the first time I saw you
You wounded my heart

Go away from me, William

And leave me alone
'Cause I'm just a poor girl
And a long way from home

No, I never will marry
Nor be no man's wife
I'm content to live single
All the days of my life

The shoal in the ocean
Will be my death bed
With the fish in deep water
Swimmin' over my head

She cast her fair body
In the water so deep
And she closed her bonny blue eyes
Forever to sleep