Love Is Teasin'

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain

I wish I was a lad again

But a lad I cannae there can be

Till the apples grow on the ivy tree

For love is teasin' and love is pleasin'

Love is a pleasure when first it's new

But love grows old and it waxes cold

And it fades away like the morning dew

I left my father and I left my mother

I left my brothers and my sisters too

I left my friends and my kind relations

I left them all to go with you

For love and porter make a young man older

And love and whiskey make him old and grey

What can't be cured, love, must be endured, love

And so I'm bound for America

For love is teasin' and love is pleasin'

Love is a pleasure when first it's new

But love grows old and it waxes cold

And it fades away like the morning dew