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