Love Is Pleasing-The Dubliners

[00:01.95]I wish I wish I wish in vain [00:09.22]I wish I wish I was a youth again [00:15.32]But a youth again I can never be [00:21.75]Till apples grow on an ivy tree [00:28.22]I left my father I left my mother [00:34.95]I left all my sisters and brothers too [00:40.51]I left all my friends and my own religion [00:47.15]I left them all for to follow you [00:52.91]But the sweetest apple is the soonest rotten [00:59.39]And the hottest love is the soonest cold [01:05.75]And what can't be cured love must be endured love [01:11.16]And my own true love I will ne'er more behold [01:17.63]And love is pleasing and love is teasing [01:24.09]And love is a pleasure when first it's new [01:29.45]But as it grows older sure the love grows colder [01:35.28]And it fades away like the morning dew [01:41.94]And love and porter makes a young man older [01:48.74]And love and whiskey makes him old and grey [01:54.08]And what can't be cured love must be endured love [01:59.96]And now I am bound for American [02:05.90]