Let No Man Steal Your Thyme lyrics

Come all you fair and tender girls

That flourish in your prime, prime

Beware, beware, keep your garden fair

And let no man steal your thyme, thyme

Let no man steal your thyme

For when your thyme is past and gone

He'll care no more for you, you

For every place that your thyme was waste

Will all spread o'er with rue, rue

Will all spread o'er with rue

For woman is a branchy tree

And man a clinging vine, vine

And from her branches carelessly

He takes what he can find, find

He takes what he can find

Come all you fair and tender girls

That flourish in your prime, prime

Beware, beware, keep your garden fair

And let no man steal your thyme, thyme

Let no man steal your thyme