This is my curse on the women
It is they who have tormented me
I fell in love early in my life
With a beautiful young woman
And she enticed me with her voice

She was gentle, friendly, without pride
She was most beguiling with the sweetest kiss
She was lively, funny and proper
And it is no lie when I say
That she enticed me with her voice

There is nobody in my family
That did not get fun and sport out of life
Alas, I am left here alone
At daybreak all by myself
Oh she enticed me with her voice

And many a cold long night
I spent courting her down by the pier
And coming home again without sorrow
At the dawning of the day
When she enticed me with her voice

She sailed far, far away
And left me in tears
I wouldn't have cared had I not been waiting
To see her ever again
Oh she enticed me with her voice

Isn't it difficult for me to go through life
Since that girl slipped away who broke my heart
And she left me grieving
Oh my sorrow and my undoing
Oh she enticed me with her voice

If I could have one wish in this world
It would surely be for us to be young forever
And I would put the hands of the clock back
To the time when life was worth living
When she enticed me with her voice

She enticed me with her voice
And she enticed me with her voice
Oh she enticed me with her voice