Dolly MacMahon- Love is Teasing (Clare) 1966 REC
[Dolly McMahon, the wife of the late Ciarán Mac Mathúna, recorded this song on Claddagh Records, 'Dolly' CC3 1966, under the title "Love is teasing." A video, now on youtube was made of her singing it Kilrush Fleadh Cheoil, County Clare in the Summer of 1967. She sings "Love is pleasing" first although the title is Love is Teasing.
R. Matteson 2017]
"Love Is Teasing" sung by Dolly MacMahon, Kilrush Fleadh Cheoil, County Clare in the Summer of 1967. Her recording on youtube and is transcribed here:
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
I wish I were a maid again
But a maid again I can never be
Until apples grow on an ivy tree.
For love is pleasing and love is teasing
And love is a treasure when first it's new
But as love grows older then love grows colder
And it fades away like the morning dew
Now there is an alehouse in the town
And there my love he sits him down
He takes a strange girl on his knee
And he tells her things that he once told me.
And love and porter make young men bolder,
And love and whiskey makes them old and grey
And what cannot be cured, love, must be endured, love
And now I am bound for Amerikay.