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Robert Graves - True Johnny
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Mary: Johnny, sweetheart, can you be true
To all those famous vows you`ve made?
Will you love me as I love you
Until we both in earth are laid?
Or shall the old wives nod and say
`His love was only for a day,
The mood goes by,
His fancies fly,
And Mary`s left to sigh.`

Johnny: Mary, alas, you`ve hit the truth,
And I with grief can but admit
Hot-blooded haste controls my youth,
My idle fancies veer and flit
From flower to flower, from tree to tree,
And when the moment catches me
Oh, love goes by,
Away I fly,
And leave my girl to sigh.

Mary: Could you but now foretell the day,
Johnny, when this sad thing must be,
When light and gay you`ll turn away
And laugh and break the heart in me?
For like a nut for true love`s sake
My empty heart shall crack and break,
When fancies fly
And love goes by
And Mary`s left to die.

Johnny: When the sun turns against the clock,
When Avon waters upward flow,
When eggs are laid by barn-door cock,
When dusty hens do strut and crow,
When up is down, when left is right,
Oh, then I`ll break the troth I plight,
With careless eye
Away I`ll fly
And Mary here shall die.
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