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 End