Don't Sing Love Songs - Barbara Dane, Original Mix

Don’t sing love songs, you’ll wake my mother\nShe’s sleepin close by my side\nAnd in her right hand she holds a dagger\nAnd says that I shan’t be your bride\nAll men are false, says my mother\nThey’ll tell you wicked lovely lies\nAnd the very next evening court another\nLeaving you alone to pine and sigh\nMy father is a handsome devil\nHe’s got a chain that’s five miles long\nOn every link a heart does dangle\nOf some poor maid he’s loved and wronged\nWish that I was some little sparrow\nYes, one of those that flies so high\nI’d fly away to my heart’s true lover\nAnd when he’d speak I would deny\nAll on his breast I’d lie and flutter\nWith my little tender wings\nI’d ask him who he meant to flatter\nOr who he meant to deceive\nGo court some other tender lady\nAnd hope that she will be your wife\nCause I been warned and I’ve decided\nTo sleep alone all of my life