This song reminds me of a story I wrote when I was younger of two young women one a princess the other the daughter of a blacksmith. The King had betrothed his daughter to a foreign Prince across the sea and when she was made to depart her lover dove into the sea trying to swim to her and the princess did the same and the moment they both reached each other and their lips met the ocean pulled them down and down. At the end of the story the Princess's nursemaid spots their ghost walking hand in hand upon the shore.
This is how I felt as a young girl, and later as a young woman. I wasn't interested in men or women. I just wanted that singular existence where 'I' and "I" alone determined my life. There were men who were tempted, yet passed me by, and even more men that I ignored. Until I met a young blue eyed Marine home from the war. He left me with a son and a daughter, and moved on to other women. I don't blame him. I know it was because of my 'don't really need you' character. Later, again I was tempted by certain men, but I had learned my lesson. I raised my children and taught them it was alright to love and be loved, but to always be self-reliant. Both of their marriages have survived four times as long as my own marriage, and they have supportive and loving relationships, for which I am grateful. If I had it to do over again? Well, I did love those blue eyes. Maybe I would try harder to accept certain rules of marriage. I have thought about the value of love and independence. I've had both. Second time around, which would I choose?
This song brings up a feeling of heartbreak that just brings me to my knees. I’m a lesbian, and loosing my loved one is my biggest fear. The line “I expect to live single” just makes me sob, it’s like she’s saying she’ll never recover from the loss or be able to love again. If something happened to my life partner, I would want to die. Sitting next to the ocean and remembering her would be all I would want to do.
alkalisunshine whether it was written by a man or not it still says “she plunged her fair body in the water” and then she cried “my love has gone and left me...SHE has gone where I’ll never see her”. Whether it’s a man or a woman singing, the lyrics are still about the singer watching a woman crying for her lover who is also a woman 🤷♀️
Guys, the song is clearly sung by a woman in this version because she implies herself as such at the end when she says she'll be no *mans* wife. She quotes that line throughout the beginning but clearly uses it to refer to herself at the end.
It's sad tale when a woman lost a lover that died she was to wed and she didn't to be forced to marry anyone else that a person who was her and soul so she took her own life. It's just sad like Romeo and Juilet. ;_; Like Ophelia too!
I wanna cry its no doubt about a young maiden lost her lover and force into going marry abusive man leading take her own life. 💔 Back then women couldn't marry men they loved or able to be happy.
Wasn't this the song Shelley Duvall sang as Rapunzel in Faerie Tale Theatre? I love Heather Dale and I love Faerie Tale Theatre, so I'm so STOKED she covered this song! XD
A beautiful song, a version I've never heard. But some of the lyrics are a bit confusing. Is a woman mourning her? That's cool by me but not the traditional song. Of course, many old songs get fragmented and the genders of the singer switched around by so many renditions. Just curious. It's a lovely video and good artwork. Thanks for posting.
why can't the woman mourn another woman? may be they were just friend, but it seemed to me the woman was drowning herself, is it just me or is that it?
wildhunter The mourning woman did drown herself at the end, to my understanding, which suggests that she loved whomever she was mourning. The she says she will never marry also suggests lovers, as it implies she would marry the person she is mourning.
It is quite confusing isn't it? I couldn't find any written lyrics for this particular version so I was forced to transcribe by ear. I listened to it repeatedly to make sure I had it right especially the last verse since, as you say, it's not what you'd expect from a traditional song. However there doesn't seem to be another way to interpret it - she very clearly says so before 'I never will marry' meaning it isn't just a repetition of the chorus. Perhaps it's a twist on the original? Whatever it is I like it.
What if the guy on the shore was the one she might have “had” to marry but she was in love with a woman she couldn’t be with or the woman she loved was dead so... the man she was supposed to marry had to watch her die because he probably couldn’t get to her where she plunged from??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Or I could be wrong I guess 🤗 idk 😶
I'm a lesbian. But I'm a guy. This song summarizes the end of my search. I will be no woman's. So much love to give.. so pure in intention.. but no more.. I just can't. Don't think about the past, yet I know.. Love for me, will never last. So now, the Love I choose to give, is for all of humanity, my Self as a gift.
@@Soundwave._ Sorry, no, I don't really know all the hip new slang regarding those issues. When I wrote that, I was in a VERY dark place. I don't want to even click play on the song, it's too... intense. If you knew me, you'd understand. I'm just a guy who's highly masculine, but, developed their feminine FIRST. Me saying "I'm a lesbian" is just a silly expression, it just means that I love women, in the same way that a woman loves another woman. I just... I don't know.. I can FEEL things very intensely, just like a women, and it's always helped me build very intense bonds, and have very intense.. erhm.. dates. Thanks for your comment, it helped me realize that I should explain this concept better to people. I need to think about how to explain this better.
@@JohnSmith-dq4dx Ah, thank you for clarifying! Though psychologically speaking, women do not feel emotions more intensely than men, they merely express them differently. If you notice that you feel emotions very intensely and you feel somewhat disconnected from gender roles, it's possible that you're neurodivergent. If you are absolutely sure you are a cis man (a man who was assigned male at birth and is comfortable as a man) then 'lesbian' wouldn't apply to you, so it's better to say 'feminine' or 'gender nonconforming', as there has been some appropriation of the term 'lesbian'. I wish you luck and am glad to hear you are not in the same dark place you were in those months ago!
@@Soundwave._ Thanks, I also wish you Love! But now, you make me curious 🙂 do you think that men and women experience emotion(s) the same? What do you think the reason for women expressing their emotion(s) differently are? Obviously, I don't fit the description of a lesbian 🤣 again, it was more of silly artistic expression to say how I feel. I'm not disconnected, quite the opposite. "Feminine" definitely wouldn't apply to me either haha, and, I'm not gender non-conformist because I'm just.. me lol, not really interested in changing.
Song originally sung by a man. He comes upon a fair maiden who makes a pitiful cry: " I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife..... my love's gone and left me, HE'S the one I adore......" then she plunges into the water to "sleep". Which kinda sucks because drowning is an extraordinarily horrific way to die.
@Luvenia Vaughan the song ap carter wrote was based off of the traditional song "oh, my love is gone" which has the correct lyrics that op stated of a woman lamenting her drowned male lover, she ends up drowning herself to be with him in death. you can find the lyrics online. it's a folk song so it's sung in parts. the man > the woman > the man, even if just one person is singing the song, the singer plays both roles.
I loved the Carter family but this version is better by far. It was written by a Carter but is CLEARLY about two LESBIANS which is a surprise to considering the time.
@Luvenia Vaughan it is not clearly written about two lesbians. nothing in the original lyrics even suggest that. it goes from first person to second person and then first person second person again. in fact the original song "my love is gone" that this song is based on has the woman who drowns herself crying about her man who drowned before. so really she's not getting married because her intended drowned and she's going to do the same. which makes the new guy who heard her nightingale voice sad.
This is a song that should be sung by a man, otherwise it sounds homosexual in nature. Some people won't care, but in the original context it screws it up. Some songs are easily changed around (Mean Mary's "Iron Horse" for example, is sung by a woman and I can change it to be sung by a man) but ones like this are much harder.
The way it seemed to me, the first chorus was the woman lamenting, the second chorus the singer (should be male) lamenting the woman (who just drowned herself), and the third chorus is just a repeat of the woman's lament. It's not homosexual.
This song reminds me of a story I wrote when I was younger of two young women one a princess the other the daughter of a blacksmith.
The King had betrothed his daughter to a foreign Prince across the sea and when she was made to depart her lover dove into the sea trying to swim to her and the princess did the same and the moment they both reached each other and their lips met the ocean pulled them down and down.
At the end of the story the Princess's nursemaid spots their ghost walking hand in hand upon the shore.
This is how I felt as a young girl, and later as a young woman. I wasn't interested in men or women. I just wanted that singular existence where 'I' and "I" alone determined my life. There were men who were tempted, yet passed me by, and even more men that I ignored. Until I met a young blue eyed Marine home from the war. He left me with a son and a daughter, and moved on to other women. I don't blame him. I know it was because of my 'don't really need you' character. Later, again I was tempted by certain men, but I had learned my lesson. I raised my children and taught them it was alright to love and be loved, but to always be self-reliant. Both of their marriages have survived four times as long as my own marriage, and they have supportive and loving relationships, for which I am grateful. If I had it to do over again? Well, I did love those blue eyes. Maybe I would try harder to accept certain rules of marriage. I have thought about the value of love and independence. I've had both. Second time around, which would I choose?
Don't know if you'll ever see this, but if I do I'd say you can have both. You can be independent while also choosing to make sacrifices for others.
I change my mind. It's better to be alone people don't bother with others
It's so sad, but so sweet and relaxing at the same time.
Beautiful song. Heather Dale is such a wonderful singer!
This song brings up a feeling of heartbreak that just brings me to my knees. I’m a lesbian, and loosing my loved one is my biggest fear. The line “I expect to live single” just makes me sob, it’s like she’s saying she’ll never recover from the loss or be able to love again. If something happened to my life partner, I would want to die. Sitting next to the ocean and remembering her would be all I would want to do.
Corny af, but I was in my feelings !
THIS BEAUTIFUL TUNE ; Brings Tears to my eyes. & makes my Heart Sad....
I had only heard Linda's cover of this Beautiful song, in 77'. Recently, come across this & Loved it. So Beautiful. 🎶
This is the song about never marrying that I was trying to find.
It is beautiful. Thank you for uploading.
This is such a beautiful song. And it shows that lesbians have always existed and not some "new" thing.
That is impossible because humans havent always existed
@@Butt_sects You think humans invented homosexuality? Snails and earthworms would like to have a word with you about that.
?? this song was written by a man.
alkalisunshine whether it was written by a man or not it still says “she plunged her fair body in the water” and then she cried “my love has gone and left me...SHE has gone where I’ll never see her”. Whether it’s a man or a woman singing, the lyrics are still about the singer watching a woman crying for her lover who is also a woman 🤷♀️
@@mollyking365 she's saying it's about lesbians when it was written from the perspective of a man.
Guys, the song is clearly sung by a woman in this version because she implies herself as such at the end when she says she'll be no *mans* wife. She quotes that line throughout the beginning but clearly uses it to refer to herself at the end.
Such a nice song thank you for uploading
thank you =] this is so beautiful 💛🧡💚💜💙💛
It's sad tale when a woman lost a lover that died she was to wed and she didn't to be forced to marry anyone else that a person who was her and soul so she took her own life. It's just sad like Romeo and Juilet. ;_; Like Ophelia too!
Much sad saphic vibes
Beautiful
I wanna cry its no doubt about a young maiden lost her lover and force into going marry abusive man leading take her own life. 💔 Back then women couldn't marry men they loved or able to be happy.
The lyrics are (I think) a match to Anita Carter's version. I think I generally like this more though.
Wasn't this the song Shelley Duvall sang as Rapunzel in Faerie Tale Theatre? I love Heather Dale and I love Faerie Tale Theatre, so I'm so STOKED she covered this song! XD
My anthom
Anyone else think that she may be mourning a dead FEMALE lover and the lover drowned so she would like to drown to do she could be with her love?
Terror Twins
After listening to this, I must say that I agree with your interpretation of this gorgeous song.
Yes, after listening to this song twice (and about to replay it), I agree, but I think it's possible that her love was unrequited.
another possibility is that the female lover went and got married because it was expected off her and moved away
I think that is obviously what the song is about since it provides as a quote from the maiden that the lover, the one she adores, is a she as well.
That's beautiful and heartbreakingly plausible
A beautiful song, a version I've never heard. But some of the lyrics are a bit confusing. Is a woman mourning her? That's cool by me but not the traditional song. Of course, many old songs get fragmented and the genders of the singer switched around by so many renditions. Just curious. It's a lovely video and good artwork. Thanks for posting.
Kallinyx Yes, it does seem the mouning woman is mourning a woman
why can't the woman mourn another woman? may be they were just friend, but it seemed to me the woman was drowning herself, is it just me or is that it?
wildhunter The mourning woman did drown herself at the end, to my understanding, which suggests that she loved whomever she was mourning. The she says she will never marry also suggests lovers, as it implies she would marry the person she is mourning.
oh... i see... it could have been a friend but it is most likely to be a lover
It is quite confusing isn't it? I couldn't find any written lyrics for this particular version so I was forced to transcribe by ear. I listened to it repeatedly to make sure I had it right especially the last verse since, as you say, it's not what you'd expect from a traditional song. However there doesn't seem to be another way to interpret it - she very clearly says so before 'I never will marry' meaning it isn't just a repetition of the chorus. Perhaps it's a twist on the original? Whatever it is I like it.
What if the guy on the shore was the one she might have “had” to marry but she was in love with a woman she couldn’t be with or the woman she loved was dead so... the man she was supposed to marry had to watch her die because he probably couldn’t get to her where she plunged from??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Or I could be wrong I guess 🤗 idk 😶
all you people saying this must be about lesbians have never stopped to consider it might have been a genderfluid/nonbinary/trans person....
I'm a lesbian.
But I'm a guy.
This song summarizes the end of my search.
I will be no woman's.
So much love to give.. so pure in intention.. but no more.. I just can't.
Don't think about the past, yet I know.. Love for me, will never last.
So now, the Love I choose to give, is for all of humanity, my Self as a gift.
Do you mean that you're trans...? You can't be lesbian and a guy unless you're genderfluid or something?
@@Soundwave._ Sorry, no, I don't really know all the hip new slang regarding those issues. When I wrote that, I was in a VERY dark place. I don't want to even click play on the song, it's too... intense.
If you knew me, you'd understand. I'm just a guy who's highly masculine, but, developed their feminine FIRST. Me saying "I'm a lesbian" is just a silly expression, it just means that I love women, in the same way that a woman loves another woman.
I just... I don't know.. I can FEEL things very intensely, just like a women, and it's always helped me build very intense bonds, and have very intense.. erhm.. dates.
Thanks for your comment, it helped me realize that I should explain this concept better to people. I need to think about how to explain this better.
@@JohnSmith-dq4dx Ah, thank you for clarifying! Though psychologically speaking, women do not feel emotions more intensely than men, they merely express them differently. If you notice that you feel emotions very intensely and you feel somewhat disconnected from gender roles, it's possible that you're neurodivergent.
If you are absolutely sure you are a cis man (a man who was assigned male at birth and is comfortable as a man) then 'lesbian' wouldn't apply to you, so it's better to say 'feminine' or 'gender nonconforming', as there has been some appropriation of the term 'lesbian'.
I wish you luck and am glad to hear you are not in the same dark place you were in those months ago!
@@Soundwave._ Thanks, I also wish you Love! But now, you make me curious 🙂 do you think that men and women experience emotion(s) the same? What do you think the reason for women expressing their emotion(s) differently are?
Obviously, I don't fit the description of a lesbian 🤣 again, it was more of silly artistic expression to say how I feel.
I'm not disconnected, quite the opposite. "Feminine" definitely wouldn't apply to me either haha, and, I'm not gender non-conformist because I'm just.. me lol, not really interested in changing.
Song originally sung by a man. He comes upon a fair maiden who makes a pitiful cry: " I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife..... my love's gone and left me, HE'S the one I adore......" then she plunges into the water to "sleep". Which kinda sucks because drowning is an extraordinarily horrific way to die.
SORRY BigV na, it was NOT sung by a man but by Ma Carter, you can hear it on youtube.
This version is better.
@@Luvenia48 it was written by ap carter, a man.
@@alkalisunshine, “The song I Never Will Marry was written by A.P. Carter and was first recorded and released by Carter Family in 1937.”
@Luvenia Vaughan the song ap carter wrote was based off of the traditional song "oh, my love is gone" which has the correct lyrics that op stated of a woman lamenting her drowned male lover, she ends up drowning herself to be with him in death. you can find the lyrics online. it's a folk song so it's sung in parts. the man > the woman > the man, even if just one person is singing the song, the singer plays both roles.
I personally think the Oiginal version from the Carter Family is a lot better!
I loved the Carter family but this version is better by far. It was written by a Carter but is CLEARLY about two LESBIANS which is a surprise to considering the time.
@Luvenia Vaughan it is not clearly written about two lesbians. nothing in the original lyrics even suggest that. it goes from first person to second person and then first person second person again. in fact the original song "my love is gone" that this song is based on has the woman who drowns herself crying about her man who drowned before. so really she's not getting married because her intended drowned and she's going to do the same. which makes the new guy who heard her nightingale voice sad.
This is a song that should be sung by a man, otherwise it sounds homosexual in nature. Some people won't care, but in the original context it screws it up. Some songs are easily changed around (Mean Mary's "Iron Horse" for example, is sung by a woman and I can change it to be sung by a man) but ones like this are much harder.
What is wrong with that? It is still a beautiful song of love long lost.
It's a song about a lesbian love. If a man sung it, he would be singing of being no man's wife.
Here's a version as narrated by a man th-cam.com/video/aCeaQSWF32U/w-d-xo.html
The way it seemed to me, the first chorus was the woman lamenting, the second chorus the singer (should be male) lamenting the woman (who just drowned herself), and the third chorus is just a repeat of the woman's lament. It's not homosexual.
An old song that probably could be sung from many perspectives. So sad, but still a wonderful song.