Myrtle Tree Lyrics

First I love Thomas, but now I love John
Then I loved Edwin, he's a clever young man.
With his white cotton stockings and his high ankle shoes,
He wears a velvet jacket, like a flash lad he goes.

For fiddling and dancing is all my delight,
And keeping flash company has ruined me quite.
Ruined me quite, and a great many more;
If I'd not kept bad company I'd never been so poor.

Take this yellow handkerchief in remembrance of me,
And I hope you will wear it in your high company;
For in the middle of the ocean there will grow a myrtle tree
If ever I prove false to her, the girl that loves me.

Here's adieu to you judges, you are too severe;
You have banished my true love from me I declare.
May the rocks run water and the rivers run dry
If ever I prove false to the girl that loves I.

For in the middle of the ocean there will grow a myrtle tree
If ever I prove false to her, the girl that loves me.