Wheel of Fortune- (Glas) 1855 Poet's Box broadside (9 stanzas)
[From: Poet's Box, 6 St. Andrew's Lane Glasgow, dated March 3, 1855. Air- All Around My Hat. Price one penny.
R. Matteson 2017]
"Wheel of Fortune"
1. When I was young I was well beloved
By all young men in the country;
When I was blooming all in my blossom,
A false young lover he deceived me.
2. He tried all his whole endeavor,
He has tried all his power and skill,
To rob me of my good behaviour,
And brake my fortune against my will.
3. I nevfer knew he was going to leave me,
Till the next morning when he came in;
When he sat down and began a talking,
Then all my sorrows they did begin.
4. I left my father, I left my mother;
I left my sisters and brothers too;
And all my friends and dear relations,
I left them all for the sake of you.
5. But turn you round, you wheel of fortune,
Turn you round and smile on me;
For young men's vows they are so uncertain,
Sad experience teaches me.
6. If I had known before I had courted,
That love it was so ill to win,
I'd ave locked my heart in a chest of diamonds,
And seal'd it up with a silver pin.
7. But fare-you-well you false hearted young man,
Its fare-you-well, since we must part;
If you're the man that has broke my fortune,
You're not the man that will break my heart.
8. Of all the flowers that grow in the garden,
Be sure and pull the rue and time[sic],
For all my rue is quite out of fashion,
And that false young man has stole my time.
9. But time will soon put an end to all things,
And love will soon put an end to me;
But sure there is a place of torment,
To punish my love for slighting me.