One morning I rambled   down by the sea shore,   and the wind it did whistle,   and the waves they did roar.   I heard some fair maiden   give a terrible cry,   and it sounded so lonely,   and it swept up so high.      Said William to Molly,   “if you will agree   to give your consent, love,   and marry me.   For my mind is to marry   and never to part.   For the first time I saw you,   you wounded my heart.”      “Go away from me William   and leave me alone,   ‘cause I’m just a poor girl   and a long way from home.   No, I never will marry   nor be no man’s wife.   I’m content to live single   all the days of my life.”      “The shoal in the ocean   will be my death bed,   with the fish in deep water   swimmin’ over my head.”   She cast her fair body   in the water so deep   and she closed her bonny-blue eyes,   forever to sleep.