Joan Baez - Silver Dagger

[intro] x2
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[Verse 1]
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Don't sing love songs you'll wake my mother,
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She's sleeping here right by my side,
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And in her right hand, a silver dagger
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She says that I   can't be your bride

[Verse 2]
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  All men are false, says my mother,
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They'll tell you wicked, lovin' lies.
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The very next evening, they'll court another,
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Leave you alone  to pine and sigh.

[Verse 3]
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  My daddy is a handsome devil
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He's got a chain five miles long,
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And on every link a heart does dangle
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Of another maid he's loved and wronged.

[Verse 4]
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  Go court another tender maiden,
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And hope that she will be your wife,
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For I've been warned, and I've decided
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To sleep alone all of my life.
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