The Bachelor

It seems to me that this song is a lament, not that Patrick chooses never to marry, but that he CANNOT marry.

No one will wear my silver ring

Poor little turtle dove sitting up in pine, Mourning for your own true love, Why not me for mine, why not, why not me for mine?

I've got hogs in the pen and corn to feed them up, All I want is someone who will feed them when I'm dead and gone, feed them when I'm dead and gone.

'Cause I'm not gonna marry in the fall And I'm not gonna marry in the spring I'll never marry - marry at all No one will wear my silver ring Wear my silver ring, boy

I'm not gonna marry in the fall And I'm not gonna marry in the spring I'll never marry - marry at all No one will wear my silver ring Wear my silver ring, boy

Poor little turtle dove sitting up in pine, Mourning for your own true love, Why not me for mine? why not me for mine?

So I went up to this mountain to give my horn a blow, All the boys in the valley said, "Yonder comes my beau, Oh, yonder comes my beau."

But I'm not gonna marry in the fall And I'm not gonna marry in the spring I will never marry - marry at all No one will wear my silver ring

I'm not gonna marry in the fall And I'm not gonna marry in the spring I will never marry - marry at all No one will wear my silver ring (wear my silver ring, no one)

Poor little turtle dove sitting up in pine Mourning for your own true love, Why not me for mine?

All I want is someone who'll feed them when I'm dead and gone When I'm dead and gone, now I will never marry - marry at all No one will wear my silver sing

Feed them when I'm dead, feed them when I'm dead, Feed them when I'm dead and and gone I will never marry - marry at all no one will wear my silver ring

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easily the best song on the album, especially live. So moving. No wonder it's the title track.

I wonder, who does the lovely second voice on this song belong to?

Amazing song. The whole album is great.