Lyrics:

(Traditional) All around my hat I will wear the green willow And all around my hat, for a twelve month and a day And if anyone should ask me the reason why I'm wearing it It's all for my true love who's far far away Faretheewell cold winter, and faretheewell cold frost Nothing have I gained, but my own true love I've lost I'll sing and I'll be merry when occasion I do see She's a false deluded young girl, let her go, farewell she And all around my hat I will wear the green willow And all around my hat, for a twelve month and a day And if anyone should ask me the reason why I'm wearing it It's all for my true love who's far far away The other night she brought me a fine diamond ring But she thought to have deprived me of a far better thing But I being careful like lovers ought to be She's a false deluded young girl, let her go, farewell she And all around my hat I will wear the green willow And all around my hat, for a twelve month and a day And if anyone should ask me the reason why I'm wearing it It's all for my true love who's far far away