I'll Be No Man's Wife Lyrics - Flatt And Scruggs

One night as I rambled down by the sea shore 

And wind, it did whistle and the waters did roar 

I heard a fair maiden make a pitiful sound 

It sounded so lonesome in the waters around 

I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife 

I accept to live single all the days of my life 

My love's gone and left me the one I adore 

He's gone where I never will see him no more 

The shells in the ocean shall be my dead bed 

A fish in deep water swim over my head 

Then she plunged her fair body in the waters so deep 

She closed her blue eyes in the waters to sleep