Silver Dagger — текст песни (Dolly Parton)

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 fools
So says my mother
They`ll tell you again
Love and lies
And then they`ll go
And court someother
Leave you alone to pine inside

My daddy is a handsome devil
He`s got a chain five miles long
On every link, a heart does dangle
Of another maid he`s loved and wronged, ohhh

Go court another tender maiden
In hopes that she might be your wife
For I`ve been warned so I decided
I`ll sleep alone all of my life, ohh...

Beware, beware, a silver dagger