The Old Garden Gate - June Tabor/Andy Cutting/Mark Emerson/Tim Harries
As I walked out one May morning
So early in the Spring
I placed my back against the old garden gate
For to hear my true love sing
Come now my love and sit down by me
Where the leaves are springing green
It's now very near the three quarters of a year
Since you and I together have been
I will not come and sit down by you
Nor yet no other man
For you have been courting some other young girl
Your heart is no longer mine
There is a flower I've heard them say
I wish I could that flower find
It's called"hearts-ease" by night and by day
Would it ease my troubled mind
I cast my anchor in the sea
And it sank down into the sand
So did my heart all in my body
When I took my false love by the hand
I'll never believe a man any more
Be his hair white yellow or brown
Unless he was high on the gallows tree
And swearing that he wanted to come down
So girls beware of a false love true
Never mind what a young man might say
He's like a star on a foggy foggy morning
You think he's near
He's far away
