Love is Teasing- Alex Campbell (Glas) c.1968 REC
[From Campbell's reissued collection; "Been on the Road So Long: The Anthology: Kissing in the Dark." I have no detailed info on this song Alex Campbell (1925 – 1987) was born and lived in Glasgow. Part of the folk music revival in the UK during the 50s and 60s, he toured Europe and the UK.
His second verse is a new addition to standard texts.
R. Matteson 2017]
Love is Pleasing- as sung by Alex Campbell
[harmonica intro]
1. I wished, I wished, oh I wished in vain
I wished I was a lad again
But lad again I can no more be
Than apples grow on an orange tree
For love is teasing and love is pleasing
And love is a pleasure when first it's new
But as it grows older ach love grows colder
And fades away like the morning dew.
2. When I was a young man I did not care
I drank the whisky night and morn
But since I've married that girl so fair
I rue the day that I was born
[Chorus]
3. I wished, I wished that my bairn was born
And sitting on his mother's knee
And me poor boy I was dead and gone
The long green grass growing over me.
[Chorus]
[harmonica outro]