Fun Facts:
1) George Butterworth composed this song as the second piece in his song cycle "A Shropshire Lad."
2) The lyrics in this song are taken from A.E. Housman's poem of the same name.
"When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
""Give crowns and 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 I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true."