don t sing love songs youll wake my mother she s sleeping here right by my side and in her right hand a silver dagger she says that i can t be your bride all men are false said my mother theyll tell you wicked loving lies and the very next evening they ll court another leave you alone to pine and sigh my daddy he s a handsome devil he s got a chain five miles long and on every link a heart does dangle of another maid he s loved and wronged so court another tender maiden and hope that she will be your wife for i have been warned and i ve decided to sleep alone all of my life1