Cat. #0275 (MFH #469) - As sung by Mrs. Pearl Brewer, Pocahontas, Arkansas on November 12, 1958
VERSE 1
As I walked out one evening
All on the sea shore
Where th wind it did whistle
And th waters did roar
VERSE 2
I saw a fair maiden
As I walked on my way
And I stopped there to listen
To th words, she did say
CHORUS:
Cry on, my loves sure gone
He's the lad I adore
He's gone where I never
Can see him any more
VERSE 3
I intend to never marry
Nor be no mans slave
I intend to live single
All th rest of my days
VERSE 4
Th shells of this ocean
My death bed shall be
And fish of this water
Shall float over me
VERSE 5
She plunged her fair body
In th water, so deep
She closed her pretty blue eyes
In the evening, to sleep