Love is Teasin'- Jean Redpath (Edin) pre-1984 REC
[From recording on Vinyl Label: Praire home companion, ASIN: B006G1OY36, Minnesota Public Radio, 1984. Jean Redpath (1937– 2014) was a Scottish folk singer and musician who was born in Edinburgh to musical parents. I have no informant named or source for her version.
R. Matteson 2017]
Love is Teasin'- Jean Redpath
I wish, I wish, though I wish in vain,
I wish I were a maid again;
But a maid again I will never be
Till oranges grow on an apple tree.
CHORUS: For love is a teasin' and love is pleasin',
Like a jewel when first it's new;
But as it grows older, love grows colder,
And fades away like the morning dew.
When my apron, it hung low,
My true love would follow through wind and snow;
But now that my apron is to my knee
He cares no more what becomes of me.
CHORUS
I wish, I wish that my babe were born
And dangling on my mother's knee
And I, poor girl, were dead and gone
With the long green grass growing over me.
CHORUS