Silver Dagger from The Sheppards by The Sheppards

SILVER DAGGER
Traditional

Don't sing love songs you’ll 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
They’ll 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 of five miles long
And on every ring 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 life

Oo ho ho ho oh oh oh oh

• Folk
• Chadds Ford