I Never Will Marry - Greg Brown

I never will marry

I’ll be no man’s wife

I intend to stay single

For the rest of my life

One day as I wandered

Down by the seashore

The wind it did whistle

And the waters did roar

I heard a poor maiden

Make a pitiful cry

She sounded so lonesome

At the waters nearby

«I never will marry

I’ll be no man’s wife

I intend to stay single

For the rest of my life

«My love’s gone and left me

He’s the one I adore

I never will see him

No never no more

«The shells in the ocean

Will be my deathbed

And the fish in the waters

Swim over my head»

She plunged her fair body

In the waters so deep

She closed her pretty blue eyes

In the waters to sleep

I never will marry

I’ll be no man’s wife

I intend to stay single

For the rest of my life