Guitar, Vocal
- Robin
Bass - Barry Weisenfeld
This is a class of lyric songs which I call the "warning songs". These songs are found both here and in the U.K. The use of plants and herbs as symbols is an old tradition and appears in folk songs all over the world. The rose represents true love, and the rue plant stands for regret.
Let No Man Steal Your
Thyme
Come all you fair and tender
ladies
All you who flourish in your prime
Beware take care, keep your garden fair
Let no man steal your thyme,
Let no man steal your thyme,
For when your thyme is
past and gone
He'll care no more for you
And in the place where your thyme was waste
He'll spread all o'er with rue,
He'll spread all o'er with rue,
A woman is a branchy tree
And man's a clinging vine
And from her branches carelessly
He'll take what he can find
He'll take what he can find
Come all you fair and tender
ladies
All you who flourish in your prime
Beware take care, keep your garden fair
Let no man steal your thyme,
Let no man steal your thyme,