The Carter Family- I Never Will Marry
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ย. 2008
- Lyrics:
One morning as I rambled all down the seashore
The wind it did whistle, and the waters did roar
I heard a fair damsel make a pitiful sound
It sounded so lonesome in the waters around
I never will marry, or be no man's wife
I expect to live single all the days of my life
The shells in the ocean shall be my death bed
The fish in deep water swim over my head
She plunged her fair body in the waters so deep
She closed her blue eyes in the waters to sleep
My love's gone and left me, the one I adore
She's gone where I never will see her anymore - เพลง
The older the better for me, please bring it back
I can't describe how much I love this song.
I have this on a 78....so this is the first time I've heard it without the crackle of playing in on my grandfather's Victrola....as a musician, I appreciate hearing this version, but sentimentally, I miss the crackle :)
I grew up listening to the carter family , this was one of the first songs i learned to play guitar and sing..
Love to listen to the Carter Family, love the old songs too.
Great picking by Mother Maybelle Carter .It's like no other !
Little Richard Long Tall Sally
@@joseusquiano7004 sure, Jose.
I never will marry again no man wil ever touch this widow again only my beloved that went to heaven to be with Jesus
I'm back here listening to this again. Love it so much, eyes are streaming.
Mine are too ❤💔❤
The Carter Family were the first musical mega stars of that new communications device, the radio. The relationship of A.P. and Sarah would have been front page on the magazines at the grocery check out.
The very first song I ever learned to play on guitar nearly 40 years ago.
Listening to this song is like getting mugged by beauty itself.
Hi there !! I never hear before for this group "Th Carter Family"
I am so glad so happy bec I can listen so nice music..
I come from Europa...
As do us Dixian/Southerners
Europa Forever
I heard this 50 years ago, but didnt know the Carters sang it.
This song touches my heart.
Love love their sound...awesome Tune!
Hi 😊
love the lyrics, love how Sarah sings it, I play this over and over
Lyrically one of the all time greats
Ah, to have lived in the 30s and 40s in countryside with an acoustic guitar should have been heaven
Ah to live back then and be subject to racism. Good times. You can listen to guitar while they beat us colored people.
lamortdifficile I am sorry to hear you say that and I readily agree but I was talking in a general sense. The U S was not the only the country I was talking about.
+lamortdifficile Some things being bad does not take away from the fact that other things were good. It's sad that those days can not be revisited, but minus the bad things. Usually when people long for the good 'ol days it's only the good things they long for, not the bad things.
Asokan Ponnusamy Except for the Great Depression and WWII...
what color?? Red, black, yellow white??
SHE NEVER WILL MARY.. I NEVER WILL MARY HEHE GREAT MUSIC I LIKE IT THE GUITAR HAS A GOOD SOUND.. THIS IS GOOD MUSIC FROM 1929 BUT THIS IS THE ONLY SOUND I REALLY LISTEN WITH JOY FROM VERY OLD SONGS. IT IS GOOD TO LISTEN..
This song evokes something in me like I’ve lived in these times in a past life it is so comforting.
love this song, my hubby and I sing this song
Thank you so much. This is one of my very favorite Carter Family songs.
Love this song great singing
I love this song..
Fondamental country... From France.
The story is straight out of the Scottish story telling tradition of the Appalachians. It's a time capsule to 400 years ago.
I like this music
this is a traditional song from eireland
Awesome!
Love this song!
Great old love lyric, sung well by Sara (especially in light of her marriage troubles with AP). I remember hearing the steel player for Sleepy LaBeef (rockabilly legend) RIP doing a nice job on this in Boston in 1978. I imagine the steeler got the song from Linda Ronstadt's version, which was also nice.
Soul.
Well I love this , so likely because my Dad and Mom used to sing this when I was just a little boy in the 50's
You are truly giving me an education
So simple:so beautiful!
love it
thank you.
geweldig
ah, like that, gracias amigo.
¡¡Una reliquia!
Anita Carter does a nice version of this song. This version here is special.
Tres belle chanson...❤️
This video is month younger than me.. A grandfather away is the song..
So true never marry again or listen to any other man lies
Back again...
Fish in the water swim over my head....how great is that?!?!
@Acexwanderer There were lots of different versions of this song by different groups, especially during the 50's folk revival. Other versions are hard to find, but were done by Irene and Ellen Kossoy, the Philo Glee & Mandolin Society, and the Brothers Four did a dressed-up version called “Damsel’s Lament.” You could call it a traditional folk song and be fine with it.
This song is trad. Adapted from the 1864 song "Oh, My Love's Gone"
Yes, very old. There are many versions with different lyrics (though the refrain stays the same).
I once heard a version which had an additional final verse (to a different tune): "There's many a change in the winter's wind/And change in the clouds' design/There's many a change in a young man's heart/But never a change in mine". Any ideas?
+Oswald Jarrett Joan Baez's version.
Linda Ronstadt sings that version also.
richredlionable With just a dobro for backing, and Dolly on harmony vocals.
May I suggest that the single "dislike" comes from someone who has never married? Ha Ha on you, you music hater!
Hi 👋
A lot of the old traditional songs are actually reworked Hymns, with different lyrics. For instance if you listen to "Can The Circle Be Unbroken" from The Carter Family, the melody and theme are taken from the hymn "Will The Circle Be Unbroken".
@ThornyRoseV You are probably right!
@baasting Church?? What church would have this song as a hymn, and where can I sign up?
Oswald that was in the Linda Ronstadt version. Lots of verses vary...
Great song love listing to it
Hi Nina
@RamJamable I wish youtube would make it where There's only "Like"
This is hardcore for that time.
Wish my dumbass mom had this kinda guts. She's always been dependent on men.
I love her to death but damn
será que jimy cárter faz parte dessa família?
Please upload the same version sung differently by Patty Andrews in case you are in possession of the track...
Nothing else is worthy of listening to.
whats the diffrence between country and folk?
The term Country ,I think , Is short for Country and Western (American) ."Folk" from anywhere.
@baasting . I really doubt those hypocrits in the church would sing there about suicide which is suppose to be a sin..
Is this a traditional folk song?
They were first cousins, but also sisters-in-law.
yo mama
A wonderful song. In German: Freddy Quinn: Allein unter Fremden th-cam.com/video/4XkPvCyzT6k/w-d-xo.html
Sind Sarah und Maybelle Schwestern?
Maybelle didn't have nearly the voice Sarah had..... But I guess this song fit her voice better.
This is Sara singing lead vocal, isn't it?
@ipalindromei
lol any babtist church
Is this song about a lesbian? Or about a guy who lost his girl? It's unclear to me whose perspective it is?
In folk music, the singer would often assume the traditional voice of the song in the interest of retaining the purity of the song. So a female singer would sing as the traditional male voice of a song, or vice versus. Today, singers will usually change the words to reflect their gender. When the Carter Family recorded these songs in the 1920's and 1930's, the old tradition was used and you will often hear Sara singing from a male perspective.
63DW89A isn't wrong exactly, but these lyrics include "Nor be no man's wife," which are not from a man's perspective.
The lyric "nor be no man's wife" is from the "Fair Damsel" who is overheard to say, "I never will marry, nor be no man's wife I expect to live single all the days of my life", before drowning herself in sorrow at the prospect of being unmarried and alone all of her life. The song's male narrator (expressed by Sara Carter's voice) overhears and observes the suicide, and is apparently the man who rejected her, and he is now remorseful about his rejection because he expresses his sorrow at never seeing her again.
63DW89A
Thank you! It makes sense now. It also gives the song such an expansive meaning. They don't write songs like this no more.
+mysteryjesus You are very welcome. This is a very old folk song that likely originated in the British Isles in the late 1700's as best I can discover. A.P. Carter "collected" the song in one of his travels in the mountains of Virginia, Tennessee or the Carolinas. A.P. then arranged the song to fit into the 3 minute recording time of the 78 rpm records of that time, and the Carter Family recorded this version in 1933. A problem with arranging old folk songs to fit a 3 minute recording is that some verses can be lost that make the song's story more clear. Anyway, most modern singers still follow the A.P. Carter arrangement and words. I'm glad you have discovered the original Carter Family. The Carter Family has a truly timeless sound and style that still charms a modern audience, and the 300 or so songs they recorded are genuine musical treasures for not only we Americans but our British Commonwealth cousins too!
They forgot the line about how they'll mess around a little.
this song is low key about lesbians