Bluegrass Messengers

False Lover- H. Cunningham (Magh) 1939 Henry

[From: Huntington, Sam Henry's Songs of the People (1990) p.383

R. Matteson 2017]


"The False Lover" sung by Herbert Cunningham of Mullagh, (Maghera, Londonderry ) N. Ireland on Jan. 14, 1939. From Sam Henry's Songs of the People p.383.

1. When I was young I was well beloved
By all young men in this countree;
When I was blooming all in my blossom,
This false young man deceived me.

2. I did not know he was going to leave me,
Till the next morning when he came in;
When he sat down and began a-talking,
It was then my sorrows they did begin.

3. Turn you round, love, your wheel of fortune,
Turn you round, love, and smile on me;
For surely there's a place of torment,
For this young man he deceiv-ed me.

4. When secret hearts, love, they shall be opened,
He can not deny what he told me;
Against the day of the resurrection
For this young man he deceiv-ed me.

5. Against the day of the resurrection
This false young man's face I would like to see,
When secret hearts, love, they shall be opened,
He can not deny what he told me.