When you were one-and-twenty
" When you were one-and-twenty" When you were one-and-twenty You heard this man say "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free." But you were one-and-twenty You sought no purpose speaking to me When you were still one-and-twenty You heard me 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 was once two-and-twenty And I've known 'tis was true