O love is teasing and love is pleasing

And love's a pleasure when first it is new

But as love grows older

It still grows colder

And fades away like the morning dew

Come all you fair maids

Now take a warning

Don't ever heed what a young man say

He's like a star on the foggy morning

When you think he's near he's far away

I left my father I left my mother

I left my brothers and my sisters too

I left my home and my fond relations

My young man for the sake of you

O love is teasing and love is pleasing

And love's a pleasure

When first it is new

But as love grows older

It still grows colder

And fades away like the morning dew