Silver Dagger

Silver Dagger - Carly Ritter

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 wicked lovin' lies

And then they'll go

And court some other

Leave him alone to pine and sigh

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

Go court some other tender maiden

And hopes that she might be your wife

For I've been warned

So I've decided

To sleep alone all of my life