Down by the Sally Gardens my love and I did meet
She passed the Sally Gardens with little snow-white feet
She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree
But I was young and foolish and with her I did not agree
"When i was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say: 'Give crowns and powns 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 and when I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again that a heart out of the bosom was never given in vain, it's paid in sorrow plenty and sold for endless rue. Now I am two-and-twenty, and oh it is true, it is true!"
In a field by the river my love and I did stand
and on my leaning shoulders she placed her snow-white hand
She bid my take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs
But I was young and foolish, and now I am full of tears.
She passed the Sally Gardens with little snow-white feet
She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree
But I was young and foolish and with her I did not agree
"When i was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say: 'Give crowns and powns 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 and when I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again that a heart out of the bosom was never given in vain, it's paid in sorrow plenty and sold for endless rue. Now I am two-and-twenty, and oh it is true, it is true!"
In a field by the river my love and I did stand
and on my leaning shoulders she placed her snow-white hand
She bid my take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs
But I was young and foolish, and now I am full of tears.