One & A Twenty Lyrics

When I was one and twenty

I heard a wise man say,

“Give crowns pounds and guineas

But not your heart away;

Give pearls away and rubies

But keep your fancy free.”

But I was one and twenty,

No use to talk to me.

When I was one and twenty

I heard him say again,

“The heart out of the bosom

Was never given in vain;

‘Tis paid with sighs a plenty

And sold for endless rue.”

And now I'm two-and-twenty

And oh, ‘tis true, ‘tis true.