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From the Library of Congress - 19th century songsheets
I Never Will Marry -- as -- Oh My Love's Gone
Pubilshed by H. De Marsan in New York.
As sung by Bryant's Minstrels. No author. No date but well before Carters.

Oh My Love's Gone

As I was a walking down by the sea shore,
Where the breezes blew cold, and the billows did roar,
I heard a shrill voice make a sorrowful sound,
It was the winds and the waves and the waters all round.

CHORUS--Oh, my love's gone,
he's the lad I adore,
He's gone where I never, no never, no never--
Shall I see my love no more?

She appeared like some goddess, or dress'd like some queen,
She is the fairest of lilies my eyes ever seen;
I told her I'd marry her myself if she please,
But the answer she gave me, "my love's in the seas."
Chorus.

The loss of my sailor I deeply deplore,
He's lost in the seas, I shall see him no more.
The shells of the oysters shall be my love's bed,
And the shrimps of the seas shall swim o'er his head.

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