How Many Years Ago, Love, Since You Came Courting Me? Through Oak-Tree Wood And O'Er The Lea, With Rosy Cheeks And Waistcoat Gay, And Mostly Not A Word To Say,-- How Many Years Ago, Love, How Many Years Ago? How Many Years Ago, Love, Since You To Father Spoke? Between Your Lips A Sprig Of Oak: You Were Not One With Much To Say, But Mother Spoke For You That Day,-- How Many Years Ago, Love, How Many Years Ago? So Many Years Ago, Love, That Soon Our Time Must Come To Leave Our Girl Without A Home;-- SHe's Like Her Mother, Love, You've Said: --At Her Age I Had Long Been Wed,-- How Many Years Ago, Love, How Many Years Ago? For Love Of Long-Ago, Love, If John Has Aught To Say, When He Comes Up To Us To-Day, (A Likely Lad, Though Short Of Tongue,) Remember, Husband, We Were Young,-- How Many Years Ago, Love, How Many Years Ago?