June Tabor - I Never Thought My Love Would Leave Me lyrics

I never thought that my love would leave me Until that morning when he came in He sat down and I sat beside him 'Twas then our troubles they did begin … Oh love is pleasing and love is teasing And love is a pleasure when first it's new But love grows older and grows quite colder And fades away like the morning dew … There is a tavern in yon town And there my love goes and he sits down He takes a dark girl on his knee And tells her what he once told me … There is a blackbird sits on yon tree Some say he's blind and cannot see Some say he's blind and cannot see And so is my false love to me … I wish my father had never whistled I wish my mother had never sung I wish the cradle had never rocked me I wish I'd died, love, when I was young