Name: Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
Duration: P00H03M50S
Description: I first fell in love with this classic after a long obsession with Pentangle and the beautiful singing of Jacqui McShee. I later learned a lovely offshoot of this song-family called 'In My Prime' from Georgia Lewis and this recording is a weaving-together of the two versions into my own.

Let No Man Steal Your Thyme

from Common Or Garden by Rosie Hodgson

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I first fell in love with this classic after a long obsession with Pentangle and the beautiful singing of Jacqui McShee. I later learned a lovely offshoot of this song-family called 'In My Prime' from Georgia Lewis and this recording is a weaving-together of the two versions into my own.

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Come all you fair and tender girls
That flourish in your prime,
Beware, beware, keep your garden fair
Let no man steal your thyme,
Let no man steal your thyme.

For when your thyme is gone and past
He'll care no more for you,
For every place that your thyme was waste
Will spread all o'er with rue,
Will spread all o'er with rue.

The gardener's son was standing by,
Three flowers he gave to me,
The pink, the blue and the violet too
Which I refused all three,
Which I refused all three.

The pink’s no colour at all,
For it fades away too soon.
The violet is too pale a hue,
I think I’ll wait ‘til June,
I think I’ll wait ‘til June.

And when in June the red rose blooms,
That's not the flower for me.
It's then I'll pick that red rose off
And plant a willow tree,
And plant a willow tree.

And how that willow tree will weave
And how that it will wind
That all the world will plainly see
How you proved so unkind,
How you proved so unkind.

For woman is a branchy tree
And man's a clinging vine,
And from her branches cruelly
He'll take what he can find,
He'll take what he can find.

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from Common Or Garden, released June 15, 2021

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Rosie Hodgson England, UK

Rosie is a folk singer/songwriter from Midhurst, West Sussex. Having grown up surrounded by traditional music, her voice possesses a naturalness and maturity, bringing "a ruby-richness to lyrics new and old". (Folk Radio UK)

Rosie is currently touring with her trio, The Wilderness Yet. ... more

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