Love Is Teasin'

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain

I wish I were a maid again

But a maid again I can never be

Until apples grow on an ivy tree

For love it is pleasin' and love is teasin'

And love is a treasure when first it's new

But as love grows older, then love grows colder

And it fades away like the morning dew

There is a little house into town

And there my love, he sits him down

He takes a strange girl on his knee

And he tells her things that he wants to be

For love and water make younger older

And love and whiskey make her old and grey

And what cannot be cured, love, must be endured, love

And now I am bound for America

La la la la la la...

La la la la la la...

As life grows older sure love grows older

And it fades away like the morning dew