Joan Baez – Silver Dagger (Guitar)

     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

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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 G              A
Leave you alone to pine and sigh.

  A                 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 G              A
Of another maid he's loved and wronged.

  A                 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 G              A
To sleep alone all of my life.