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