Lyr Add: Youth Of My Heart / Youth of the Heart

Subject: Lyr Add: Youth Of My Heart
From: RunrigFan
Date: 25 Sep 20 - 07:34 PM

As Written by Donald Swann

Swann: When I was a young man, I hadn't a penny,
"When shall we marry?", my Molly would say.
But I was a wise man and said to my darling,
"Love that is true love will not fade away".
CHORUS:
Oh, the youth of the heart,
And the dew in the mornin'.
You wake, and they've left you,
Without any warnin'.

I went to America looking for money,
I worked all the day and I slept all alone.
The sweet silver dollars I saved for my darling,
To clothe her in satin and make her my own.
[CHORUS]

I came back to Ireland, my pockets a-jingle,
And the wedding bells rang as I came down the street.
"Oh, where is the colleen I've come back to marry?",
I asked the first neighbour I happened to meet.

[CHORUS]

"Your love has grown weary of keeping her kisses,
And learning a song that will never be sung.
This morning, your Molly has married another,
A penniless man with a heart that is young".
[CHORUS]

So all you young lovers all ready to marry,
Remember my story and mind what I say.
For I was a wise man, and now I am sorry,
The wisdom of winter is madness in May.

[CHORUS]


AG

When I was a young man, I hadn't a penny,
"When shall we marry?", my Molly would say.
But I was a wise man and said to my darling,
"Love that is true love will not fade away".

CHORUS:

Oh, the youth of the heart,
And the dew in the mornin'.
You wake, and they've left you,
Without any warnin'.

I went to America looking for the money,
I worked all the day and I slept all alone.
The sweet silver dollars I saved for my darling,
To clothe her in satin and make her my own.

I came back to Ireland, my pockets a-jingle,
The wedding bells rang as I came down the street.
"Oh, where is the colleen I've come back to marry?",
I asked the first neighbour I happened to meet.

[CHORUS]

"Your love has grown weary of keeping her kisses,
And learning a song that will never be sung.
This morning, your Molly has married another,
A penniless man with a heart that is young".

So all you young lovers all ready to marry,
Remember my story and mind what I say.
For I was a wise man, and now I am sorry,
The wisdom of winter is madness in May.

[CHORUS]

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Youth Of My Heart / Youth of the Heart
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Sep 20 - 03:40 PM

Hi, RunrigFan,
we've already got a thread or two for this one.

The lyric you post in the OP is, indeed, the one
sung and recorded by Donald Swann.

A few corrections are in order.
Sidney Carter, not Donald Swann, wrote these lyrics;
Donald Swann composed the music.

And it does appear that Sidney Carter's original lyric
went through some slight variations on its way to
being set, and sung, by Donald Swann.

"The wisdom of winter is madness in May"
is one line which varies, and there are others.

I would dearly like to know where Sidney Carter
originally published/disseminated his initial version of this text,
but I haven't found a source.
Anybody else know of it?