ALL AROUND MY HAT

 

 

All around my hat

1. All around my hat
I will wear the green willow
And all around my hat
for a twelve month and a day
And if anyone should ask me
the reason why I’m wearing it
It’s all for my true love
who’s far, far away

2. Fare thee well cold winter
and fare thee well cold frost
Nothing have I gained
but my own true love I’ve lost
I’ll sing and I’ll be merry
when occasion I do see
He’s a false deluding young man,
let him go, farewell he

3. The other night he brought me
a fine diamond ring
But he thought to have deprived me
of a far better thing
But I being careful like
lovers ought to be
He’s a false deluding young man,
let him go, farewell he and

4. All around my hat I will
wear the green willow
And all around my hat
for a twelve month and a day
And if anyone should ask me
the reason why I’m wearing it
It’s all for my true love
who’s far, far away

5. It’s a quarter pound of reasons
and a half a pound of sense
A small sprig of time
and as much of prudence
You mix them all together
and you will plainly see
He’s a false deluding young man,
let him go, farewell he and

6. All around my hat
I will wear the green willow
And all around my hat
for a twelve month and a day
And if anyone should ask me
the reason why I’m wearing it
It’s all for my true love
who’s far, far away

7. All around my hat
I will wear the green willow
And all around my hat
for a twelve month and a day
And if anyone should ask me
the reason why I’m wearing it
It’s all for my true love
who’s far, far away

8. All around my hat
I will wear the green willow
And all around my hat
for a twelve month and a day
And if anyone should ask me
the reason why I’m wearing it
It’s all for my true love
who’s far, far away