This morning as I rambled down by the seashore The wind it did whistle, and the waters did roar But I heard a fair damsel make a pitiful sound It sounded so lonesome in the waters around "I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife I expect to live single all the days of my life The shells in the ocean shall be my deathbed The fish in deep water swim over my head" She plunged her fair body in the waters so deep And she closed her blue eyes in those waters to sleep My love's gone and left me, the one I adore And she's gone where I never will see her no more So I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife I expect to live single all the days of my life The shells in the ocean shall be my deathbed And the fish in deep water swim over my head I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife I expect to live single all the days of my life