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Come in, come in, you old true love,
And chat for awhile with me,
For it's been three quarters of a long year or more,
Since I spoke one word to thee.
I shan't come in, I shan't set down,
I ain't got a moment's time,
And since you are engaged with another true love,
Then your heart is no longer mine.
When you were mine, my old true love,
Then your head lay on my breast,
You could make me believe by the falling of your arm,
That the sun rose up in the west.
There is many the star shall jingle in the west,
There is many the leaf below,
There is many the damn that shall lite upon a man,
For treating a poor girl so.
I wish to the Lord I'd never been born,
Or had died when I was young,
Then I never would have mourned for my old true love,
Nor have courted no other one.
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- Lodestar
- Fountain of Snow
- False True Lovers
- Within Sound
- The Power of the True Love Knot
- The Classic Shirley Collins
- The Sweet Primeroses
- The Acoustic Folk Box
- Baez & Collins Folk Classics
- Sweet England - 37 Essential Folk Favourites
- The Collection 1955-1960
- False True Lovers (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1960)
- The Sweet Primroses
- English Folk Classics
- Classic Collins, Vol. 3: False True Lovers
- I Love Music (Only Original Recondings)
- The Queen of May
- Richie Song
- Poor Old Horse
- Famous Hits