Love Is Pleasing

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain

I wish I was a youth again

But a youth again I can never be

Till apples grow on an ivy tree

I left me father, I left me mother

I left all my sisters and brothers too

I left all my friends and my own relations

I left them all for to follow you

And love is pleasing and love is teasing

And love is a pleasure when first it's new

But as it grows older the love grows colder

And it fades away like the morning dew

And the sweetest apple is the soonest rotten

And the hottest love is the soonest cold

And what can't be cured love must be endured love

But my own true love I will never behold

For love and porter makes a young man older

And love and whiskey makes him old and grey

And what can't be cured love has to be endured love

And now I am bound for America

Oh, love is pleasing and love is teasing

And love is a pleasure when first it's new

And as it grows older the love grows colder

And it fades away like the morning dew