Oh, When I Was In Love With You

Text by A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad Song Collection

"Oh, When I Was In Love With You" is a song by Beverly Benjamin Cole. It is the ninth in a set of eleven poems from A. E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad". If interested in sheet music, please email jackmor@umich.edu

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Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.

And now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they’ll say that I
Am quite myself again.

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