Love is PleasingAnd love is a pleasure when first it's new But as it grows older sure love grows colder And it fades away like the morning dew I left my father, I left my mother I left all my brothers and sisters too I left all my friends and my own relations I left them all for to follow you Chorus But the sweetest apple is the soonest rotten And the hottest love is the soonest cold And what cannot be cured love, must be endured love And now I am bound for Amerikay Chorus And love and porter make a young man older And love and whiskey make him old and grey And what cannot be cured love must be endured love And now I am bound for Amerikay Chorus I wish, I wish, I wish in vain I wish I was a maid again But a maid again I ne'er will be Till the cherries grow on an ivy tree Chorus (repeat last line) |