| Don’t sing love songs, you’ll wake my mother
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| She’s sleeping here right by my side
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| In her right hand a silver dagger
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| She says that I can’t be your bride
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| All men are fools, so says my mother
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| They’ll tell you again love and lies
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| And then they’ll go and court some other
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| Leave you alone to pine inside
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| My daddy is a handsome devil
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| He’s got a chain five miles long
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| On every link a heart does dangle
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| Of another maid he’s loved and wronged
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| Go court another tender maiden
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| In hopes that she might be your bride
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| For I’ve been warned, so I decided
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| I’ll sleep alone all of my life
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| Don’t sing love songs, you’ll wake my mother
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| She’s sleeping here right by my side
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| In her right hand a silver dagger
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| She says that I can’t be your bride |