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Silver Dagger

from Vampire Chat (album) by David Morrison

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This is a traditional folk song. My mother learned it from Joan Baez recordings.

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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 night, they'll court another
Leave you alone to pine and sigh.

My father was a handsome sailor
He had a chain five fathoms long
On every link another maiden
That he had loved and done her wrong

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

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from Vampire Chat (album), released June 1, 2015
Voice and all instruments by DM, except bass, by Matt Walkin;

A Rat palace Production. (C) 2015 a.r.r.

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David Morrison Wimberley, Texas

Singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer. Occasional guest vocalist w/The Rudy Schwartz Project, Farrago Ensemble, The Able Sea & others. Has played hundreds of solo & band shows & been
featured on Church of the Subgenius show. Coproduced the Glimmer Blinkken's Golden Days & mixed the Mustn'ts EP. Currently w/the Lemon Settlement & the Swangles. Runs Rat Palace Recording.
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