Love is Pleasing- Ronnie drew Dubliners (Dub) 1959
[Date provided by Noel Murphy, 'Murf' who said in 1974: "This was the first song I ever heard the Dubliners sing back in 1959." The group officially formed in 1962. From the Album The Dubliners (Bonus Track Edition) released January 1, 1964 titled I Wish (Till Apples Grow) which appeared as a bonus track. The Dubliners later released the song under the title, "Love Is Pleasing".
[The Dubliners first came together in 1962 during informal sessions at O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin.
Apparently part of this version is based on the end of "Youth and Folly" also "What Can't Be Cured." The stanza was published by James Joyce:
"'Tis youth and folly, makes young men marry,
So here, my love, I'll no longer stay.
What can't be cured, sure, must be injured[endured], sure,
So I'll go to Amerikay.
The other stanzas are floaters from Died for Love (stanza 1) and Wheel of Fortune (stanza 2).
R. Matteson 2017]
Love is Pleasing- by the Dubliners reportedly sung as early as 1959. It was released under a different title in 1964, sung solo by Ronnie Drew. Transcription R. Matteson 2017.
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
I wish, I wish, I was a youth again
But a youth again I can never be
Till the apples grow on an ivy tree.
I left me father, I left me mother
I left all me sisters and brothers too
I left all me friends and me own religion
I left them all for to follow you.
But the sweetest apple is the soonest rotten
And the hottest love is the soonest cold
And what can't be cured love has to be endur-ed love
And now I am bound for Americ-ka.
Oh love is pleasin' and love is teasin'
And love is a pleasure when first it's new
But as it grows older sure the love grows colder
And it fades away like the morning dew.
And love and porter makes a young man older
And love and whiskey makes him old and grey
And what can't be cured love has to be endur-ed love
And now I am bound for Americ-ka.