don't sing love songs you'll wake my mothernshe's sleeping here right by my sidenand in her right hand, a silver daggernshe says that I can't be your bridennall men are false so says my mothernthey'll tell you wicked, loving liesnand the very next evening they'll court anothernleave you alone to pine and sighnnmy daddy he is a handsome devilnhe's got a chain five miles longnand on every link, a heart does danglenof another maid he's loved and wrongednngo find another tender maidennand hope that she will be your wifenfor I have been warned, and I've decidednto sleep alone all of my life