As I walked out one May morning So early in the spring I placed my back against the old garden gate For to hear my true love sing "Come now my love and sit down by me Where the leaves are springing green For it's now very near three-quarters of a year Since you and I together have been" "I will not come and sit down by you Nor yet no other man For you have been courting some other young girl And your heart it is no longer mine" There is a flower I've heard them say I wish I could that flower find It's called Heartsease by night and day Would it ease my troubled mind? I cast my anchor in the sea And it sank down into the sand So did my heart all in my body When I took my false love all by the hand Oh, I'll never believe a man anymore Be his hair white, yellow or brown Unless he was high on the gallows tree And swearing that he wanted to come down So girls, beware of a false lover true Never mind what a young man might say He's like a star on a foggy, foggy morning You think he's near, he's far, far away