Silver Dagger Lyrics

Don't sing love songs, you'll wake my mother

She's sleeping here right by my side

In her right hand is a silver dagger

She says that I can't be your bride

All men are false, so says my mother

They'll tell you wicked loving lies

And then they'll go and court some other

Leave you alone to mourn inside

My father was a handsome devil

He had a chain five miles long

On every link, a heart did dangle

Of another maid he'd loved and wronged

Go court another tender maiden

In hopes that she might be your wife

For I've been warned and I've decided

I'll sleep alone all of my life