Silver Dagger

	  		Intro: D  

                  A                    D 
Don't sing love songs, you'll wake my mother 
                 A               Bm 
She's sleeping here right by my side 
                   G            Em 
And in her right hand a silver dagger, 
              Bm                A 
She says that I can't be your bride. 

             A                 D 
All men are false, says my mother, 
                  A               Bm 
They'll tell you wicked, lovin' lies. 
                  G                     Em                 
The very next evening, they'll court another, 
            Bm                A 
Leave you alone to pine and sigh. 

                         D 
My daddy is a handsome devil 
             A                Bm 
He's got a chain five miles long, 
               G                  Em 
And on every link a heart does dangle 
            Bm                    A 
Of another maid he's loved and wronged. 

                           D 
Go court another tender maiden, 
               A                 Bm 
And hope that she will be your wife, 
                G                  Em 
For I've been warned, and I've decided 
           Bm               A 
To sleep alone all of my life.