Silver Dagger chords by Fleet Foxes

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.


Lovely little song originally by Joan Baez, covered by the Fleet Foxes in 2009