Bluegrass Messengers

Love It Is Pleasing- Mrs. Gulliver (Som) 1905 Hammond

[From: Henry Hammond Manuscript Collection (HAM/2/1/23). Reprinted Roy Palmer. Standard version with "warning" stanza last.

R. Matteson 2017]

Love It Is Pleasing- sung by Mrs. Gulliver of  Combe Florey, Somerset in May, 1905 collected by H.E.D. Hammond

1. When I was young love and in full blossom,
All young men came surrounding me,
When I was young and well behaved,
A false young man came a courting me.

  So love it is pleasing, and love it is teasing,
  Love is a treasure when first it's new;
  But as it grow(s) older it still grow(s) colder,
  And fades away like the morning dew.

2. I left my father, I left my mother,
I left my brothers and sisters too;
I left my home and my kind relations,
Forsook them all for the love of you.

3. So girls beware of your false young lovers,
Never mind what a young man says
He's like a star on a foggy morning
You think he's near when he far away.

4. I never thought my love would leave me,
Until one morning when he came in;
He drew a chair and sat down beside me,
And then my troubles oh! they did begin.