here Is a Tavern- Annie Shirer (Aber) c.1908 Greig M
[One stanza with a different chorus from The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection - Volume 8 - page 263; by Patrick N. Shuldham-Shaw, Emily B. Lyle - 2002.
This is a hybrid version blending a stanza of There is a Tavern with Inconstant Lover.
R. Matteson 2017]
M. There Is a Tavern- sung by Annie Shirer (b. 1873) of Kininmonth who got her ballads from her father and Uncle Kenneth Shirer. Collected by Gavin Grieg, c. 1908.
1. There is a tavern in this town,
My lover gangs there and sets him down,
He takes a strange girlie on his knee,
And he tells to her what he once told me.
The meeting's a pleasure but parting is grief
And an inconstant lover is worse than a thief,
A thief and but rob you, take all that you have,
But an inconstant lover can lay you in his grave.