Love Is Teasing- Mrs. Hopkins (Hants) 1907 Gardiner
[From: George Gardiner Manuscript Collection (GG/1/16/1002)
R. Matteson 2017]
Love Is Teasing- sung by Mrs. Hopkins of Axford Hampshire, in October, 1907. Collectors: Gardiner, G.B. Gamblin, Charles
1. Once I was young and well belov-ed
Lived in cottage down by the sea,
When I am old and in full blossom,
This false young man deceiv-ed me.
So love is teasing, love is pleasing,
Love is a pleasure while it's new;
But as it gets older it's sure to grow colder,
And dies away like the morning dew.
2. I left my father, I left my mother,
I left my brothers and sisters too;
I left my home and my kind relations,
And that was all for the love of you.
3. I did not know he was a-going to leave me,
Until next morning when he came in;
He sat him down and began to tell me,
And that was the time my sorrow did begin.
4. Now, all young maids by me take warning,
And not by false men be led astray
For they are like a star on a foggy morning
When they ought to be here they are far away.