Lyrics:
The time 'tis of haying,
Two lovers are straying,
Thro' sweet love land;
Two lips with love meeting,
Two hearts with love beating, To beat the band.
The boy has grown silent, the girl wonders why,
He turns to the girl with a sigh.
And soft he replies,
When she asks why he sighs,
“I am thinking my dear,
Only thinking my dear:“
“If a girl like you, loved a boy like me,
Like a girl like you could love,
If she cared to care, and he dared to dare,
What a happy pair they'd be,
If a girl like you, loved a boy like me,
And the girl like you, was you,
I tel you what, I'd give a whole lot,
If the boy was me.” (repeat chorus)
The time 'tis in June time,
Birds singing in tune time,
And June time brings,
Each day a new wedding,
And under this heading,
Comes rings and things;
A boy and a girl we have oft met before,
Are now coming out a church door.
For the boy dared to dare,
And the girl cared to care,
When he whisper'd so low,
In the first verse you know:
