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