One morning I rambled, down by the seashore
And the wind it did whistle
And the water did roar
I heard some fair maiden
Give a pitiful cry
And it sounded so lonely
It swept off so high
Said William to Molly "If you will agree,
To give your consent love, to marry me?
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,
For I'm just a poor girl and a long ways from home.
I never will marry,
I'll be no man's wife,
I intend to live single all the days of my life"
"The shells in the ocean shall be my death bed,
While the fish in deep waters swim over my head"
She cast her fair body
In the water so deep
And she closed her pretty blue eyes
Forever to sleep
End
