The Youthful Boy

from Ghost by Kate Rusby

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words trad & Kate Rusby, tune Kate Rusby

lyrics

My love is on the water let him sink or swim,
If he can be without me then I’ll be without him,
My love he is a youthful boy but younger though am I,
And countless times he told me that he’d marry me or die.

Chorus
And oh won’t you help me now to sail on the sea,
I’ll drift over perfect waters, I’ll break free.
Our meeting is a pleasure but the parting is a grief,
A false hearted cruel man is worse than a thief,
A thief he will steal from you but leave you with a heart,
A false-hearted lover he will pick your soul apart.

Chorus

I have been forsaken but my heart forewarned,
And surely he’s mistaken if he thinks that I’ll mourn,
I’ll take off the black dress and I will wear the green,
The shards of ice within my heart will never more be seen.

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My love is on the water let him sink or swim,
If he can be without me then I’ll be without him,
My love he is a youthful boy but younger though am I,
And though I’m fair I will not dare to love more til I die.

Chorus

credits

from Ghost, released November 7, 2022
Vocal - Kate Rusby
Guitar - Damien O’Kane
Electric Guitar - Steven Iveson
Diatonic Accordion - Nick Cooke
Banjo- Ron Block

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Kate Rusby England, UK

Forever proud to call herself a folk singer, Kate celebrates her own 50 yrs with her 'Established 1973' tours.

2022 marked 30 yrs as a professional musician with the album 30:Happy Returns

Hand Me Down (2020) was her highest-charting album.

Named in the Top 10 Folk Voices of the Century and a Mercury Prize in 1999

Yorkshire roots the carols in her Christmas tour.
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