There's a different version collected here from traditional singer, Carrie Milliner who was born in 1926 & grew up in a sleeper cutters camp where everyone in the family sang.

The song is sung by us not them (Chloe & Jason Roweth) from their interpretation of Carrie's collected works in the Oral History collection of the National Library (www.nla.gov.au)

Maybe Bob Bolton can put up the dots in the Song Book that accompanied their CD - 'Sleepers'

Note from CD liner - Well known English/Irish traditional song adapted in America, and it seems, Australia as well. Carrie commented that later recorded versions of a song often frustrated her attempts to remember the old tune.
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I NEVER WILL MARRY

One morning as I rambled down by the sea-shore
The wind it did whistle & the waters did roar.

I heard a fair damsel make a pitiful sound,
She sounded so lonesome, on the waters around.

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

The shells in the ocean will be my death bed,
The fish in deep water swim over my head,

She cast her fair body on the waters so deep,
She closed her blue eyes in the water to sleep.

My love's gone and left me, the one I adore,
He's gone and I'll never see him anymore


chorus (2)