One morning I rambled down by the seashore
The wind it did whistle, and the waters did roar

I heard a fair maiden make a pitiful sound
It sounded so lonesome in the waters around

I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife
I expect to live single all the days of my life

My love's gone and left me, he's the one I adore
He's gone where I never will see him any more

The shells in the ocean shall be my deathbed
The fish in deep waters swim over my head

Then she plunged her fair body in the water so deep
She closed up her blue eyes, forever to sleep