I Never Thought My Love Would Leave Me

I never thought that my love would leave me

Until that morning when he came in

He sat down and I sat beside him

'Twas then our troubles they did begin

Oh love is pleasing and love is teasing

And love is a pleasure when first it's new

But love grows older and grows quite colder

And fades away like the morning dew

There is a tavern in yon town

And there my love goes and he sits down

He takes a dark girl on his knee

And tells her what he once told me

There is a blackbird sits on yon tree

Some say he's blind and cannot see

Some say he's blind and cannot see

And so is my false love to me

I wish my father had never whistled

I wish my mother had never sung

I wish the cradle had never rocked me

I wish I'd died, love, when I was young