One morning I rambled, down by the seashore
And the wind it did whistle and the water did roar
I heard some fair maiden, give a pitiful cry
And it sounded so lonely, it swept off so high

Said William to molly
If you will agree, to give your consent love, to marry me?
My mind is to marry and never to part
For the first time I saw you, you wounded my heart

Go away from me William, and leave me alone
For I'm just a poor girl and a long ways from home
I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife
I intend to live single all the days of my life

The shells in the ocean shall be my death bed
While the fish in deep waters swim over my head
She cast her fair body in the water so deep
And she closed her pretty blue eyes, forever to sleep