Love Is Teasin' Lyrics - The Long Black Veil - The Chieftains

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain 

I wish I were a maid again 

But a maid again I can never be 

Until apples grow on an ivy tree 

For love it is pleasin' and love is teasin' 

And love is a treasure when first it's new 

But as love grows older, then love grows colder 

And it fades away like the morning dew 

There is a little house into town 

And there my love, he sits him down 

He takes a strange girl on his knee 

And he tells her things that he wants to be 

For love and water make younger older 

And love and whiskey make her old and grey 

And what cannot be cured, love, must be endured, love 

And now I am bound for America 

La la la la la la... 

La la la la la la... 

As life grows older sure love grows older 

And it fades away like the morning dew