I Never Will Marry

I Never Will Marry

Folk songs

This is a hand-transcribed version of the song, "I Never Will Marry." A note on the reverse credits this song to, "All my father's family and people from Tennessee."

Bobby McMillon

Bobby McMillon Collection, Southern Appalachian Archives, Mars Hill University

Southern Appalachian Archives, Liston B. Ramsey Center for Appalachian Studies, Mars Hill University

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English

Tennessee

I Never Will Marry

One morning I rambled
Down by the sea shore
The wind it did whistle
And the waters did roar.

I heard some fair maiden
Give a pitiful sound
And it sounded so lonesome
In the waters around.

I never will marry
Nor be no man's wife
I expect to live single
All the days of my life.

My love's gone and left me
The one I adore
He's gone where I never
Shall see him no more.

The shells in the ocean
Will be my death bed
While 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 the waters to sleep.

[verso]:
All my fathers family
and people from Tennessee

Handwritten text on pages 69 and 70 of a blue double-entry ledger.