One morning I rambled Down by the seashore, The wind it did whistle And the waters did roar. I heard some fair maiden Give a pitiful cry, It sounded so lonesome It swept off on high. Chorus: "I never will marry, Nor be no man's wife, I expect to stay single All the days of my life." "The shells in the ocean Will be my death bed, While the fish in deep water Swim over my head." "My love's gone and left me, He's the one I adore, He is gone where I never Shall see him any more." She cast her fair body In the water so deep, She closed her pretty blue eyes Forever to sleep.