I Never Will Marry - Odetta

As I went a-walkin'

Down by the seashore

A wind did whistle

And the water did roar

I met a young woman

Made a pitiful cry

Said «I never will marry

For the days of my life.»

The shells in the ocean

Will be my deathbed

The fish in deep water

Will swim over my head

«I never will marry.

I’ll be no man’s wife.

And tend to live single

All the days of my life.»

As I went a-walkin'

Down by the seashore

The wind there did whistle

And the water did roar.