Lyrics to Silver Dagger

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 false so says my mother they tell you wicked loving lies

The very next evening they'll court aome other leave you alone to pine and sigh



My daddy is a handsome devil he's got a chain five miles long

From every link a heart does dangle of another maid he's loved and wronged

[ dobro - fiddle ]

Go court another tender maiden and hope that she might be your wife

For I've been warned so I've decided I'll sleep alone all of my life