When I Was One-And-Twenty - Malcolm Martineau, Thomas Allen, George Butterworth

When I was one-and-twenty

I heard 1 say

«Give crowns and pounds and guineas

But not your heart away;

Give pearls away and rubies

But keep your fancy free.»

But I was one-and-twenty

No use to talk to me

When I was one-and-twenty

I heard him say again

«The heart out of the bosom

Was never given in vain;

'Tis paid with sighs a plenty

And sold for endless rue.»

And I am two-and-twenty

And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true