Name: Silver Dagger
Duration: P00H02M04S
Description: A cautionary tale against scoundrels.

Silver Dagger

from Silver Dagger by Emily Oephelia

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A cautionary tale against scoundrels.

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

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

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

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

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from Silver Dagger, released October 24, 2017
music written and produced by the amazing Sean Matthew Whiteford

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