Love is Pleasing - Karan Casey

I never thought that my love would leave me

Until that morning when he stepped in

He sat down and I sat beside him

And 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 it fades away like the morning dew

There is an alehouse in yon town

And there my love goes and he sits down

He takes a strange girl upon his knee

And tells her what he once told 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