{"id":7238,"date":"2010-03-01T04:53:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T08:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7238"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:23:15","slug":"she-never-will-marry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7238","title":{"rendered":"She Never Will Marry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Never_Mary_Mix.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Never_Marry_Mix.mp3\">She Never Will Marry<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>&#8220;She Never Will Marry&#8221; is an adaptation of some very old ballads. I first heard it sung by a red headed woman at Chicago&#8217;s Gate of Horn. Here&#8217;s a song that provides a glimpse into its origins:<\/p>\n<p>THE LOVER&#8217;S LAMENT FOR HER SAILOR<\/p>\n<p>As I was walking along the seashore,<br \/>\nWhere the breeze it blew cool, and the billows did round,<br \/>\nWhere the wind and the waves and the waters run<br \/>\nI heard a shrill voice make a sorrowful sound.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\nCrying, O my love&#8217;s gone, whom I do adore,<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s gone and I will never see him more.<\/p>\n<p>I tarried awhile still listening near,<br \/>\nAnd heard her complain for the loss of her dear;<br \/>\nWhich grieved me sadly to hear her complain<br \/>\nCrying, he is gone and I will never see him again.<\/p>\n<p>She appeared like some goddess, and dressed like a queen,<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the fairest of creatures that ever was seen.<br \/>\nI told her I&#8217;d marry her myself, if she pleas&#8217;d,<br \/>\nBut the answer she made me, was my love is in the seas.<\/p>\n<p>I never will marry nor be any man&#8217;s bride,<br \/>\nI choose to live single, all the days of my life,<br \/>\nFor the loss of my sailor I deeply deplore,<br \/>\nAs he&#8217;s lost in the seas I shall ne&#8217;er see him more.<\/p>\n<p>I will go down to my dearest that lies in the deep<br \/>\nAnd with kind embraces I will him intreat,<br \/>\nI will kiss his cold lips like the coral so red,<br \/>\nI will close up his eyes that have been so long dead.<\/p>\n<p>The shells of the oysters shall be my lover&#8217;s bed,<br \/>\nAnd the shrimps of the sea shall swim over his head,<br \/>\nThen she plunged her fair body right into the deep,<br \/>\nAnd closed her fair eyes in the water to sleep.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[G] They say that [D] love&#8217;s a [G] gentle thing<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s [C] only [D] brought her [G] pain<br \/>\nFor the [C] only [D] man she [G] ever [Em] loved<br \/>\nHas [Am] gone on the [D] midnight [G] train<\/p>\n<p>She never will [D] marry<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll be no man&#8217;s [C] wife<br \/>\nShe expect to live [G] single<br \/>\nAll the [D] days of her [G] life<\/p>\n<p>Well the train pulled out<br \/>\nThe whistle blew<br \/>\nWith a long and a lonesome moan<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s gone he&#8217;s gone<br \/>\nLike the morning dew<br \/>\nAnd left her all alone<\/p>\n<p>She never will marry<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll be no man&#8217;s wife<br \/>\nShe expect to live single<br \/>\nAll the days of her life<\/p>\n<p>Well there&#8217;s many a change in the winter wind<br \/>\nAnd a change in the clouds and Byrds<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s many a change in a young man&#8217;s heart<br \/>\nBut never a change in hers<\/p>\n<p>She never will marry<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll be no man&#8217;s wife<br \/>\nShe expect to live single<br \/>\nAll the days of her life<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: She Never Will Marry &#8220;She Never Will Marry&#8221; is an adaptation of some very old ballads. I first heard it sung by a red headed woman at Chicago&#8217;s Gate of Horn. Here&#8217;s a song that provides a glimpse into its origins: THE LOVER&#8217;S LAMENT FOR HER SAILOR As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;She Never Will Marry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-love","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7238"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8745,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions\/8745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}