[Intro]
[Verse]
As I walked out one May morning
So early in the spring
I placed my back against the old garden gate
For to hear my true love sing
[Verse]
âCome now my love and sit down by me
Where the leaves are springing green
For it s now very near three-quarters of a year
Since you and I together have beenâ
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âI will not come and sit down by you
Nor yet no other man
For you have been courting some other young girl
And your heart it is no longer mineâ
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There is a flower I ve heard them say
I wish I could that flower find
It s called Heartsease by night and day
Would it ease my troubled mind?
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I cast my anchor into the sea
And it sank down into the sand
So did my heart all in my body
When I took my false love all by the hand
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Oh, I ll never believe a man anymore
Be his hair white, yellow or brown
Unless he was high on the gallows tree
And swearing that he wanted to come down
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So girls, beware of a false lover true
Never mind what a young man might say
He s like a star on a foggy, foggy morning
You think he s near, he s far, far away