I Never Will Marry

Hank Snow

Written by A.P. Carter

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

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One morning as I rambled down by the seashore
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The wind it did whistle and the waters did roar
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I heard of fair maiden make a pitiful sound
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It sounded so lonesome in the waters around

Verse 2

G7                 C                F
I never will marry I'll be no man's wife
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I expect to live single all the days of my life

Verse 3

G7                      C            F
My love's gone and left me the one I adore
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She's gone where I'll never see her anymore
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She plunged her fair body in the waters so deep
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She closed her pretty blue eyes in the waters to sleep

Verse 4

G7                 C                F
I never will marry I'll be no man's wife
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I expect to live single all the days of my life
G7                      C                 F
The shells in the ocean shall be my death bed
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While the fish in deep water swim over my head