Ever The Winds - Tommy Makem

As I went a walking way down by the greenwood

Down where the ivy and laurel entwine

I heard a bird singing a sad, plaintive love song

He mourned for his true love as I mourned for mine

Ever the winds keep on changing their journey

Ever the waves keep on changing the sea

Ever green summer keeps changing to autumn

My true love has changed, but there’s no change in me

I brought my love flowers all tied up with ribbons

Soon the sweet flowers were faded and gone

Like the flowers, my true love’s affections have withered

Which leaves me alone here to pine and to mourn

Ever the winds keep on changing their journey

Ever the waves keep on changing the sea

Ever green summer keeps changing to autumn

My true love has changed, but there’s no change in me

My constant companions are sadness and sorrow

Trouble has never forsaken me yet

But wherever I go 'til my days are all numbered

The love of my soul, I will never forget

Ever the winds keep on changing their journey

Ever the waves keep on changing the sea

Ever green summer keeps changing to autumn

My true love has changed, but there’s no change in me