I Live Not Where I Love

Come all ye maids that live at a distance

Many a miles from off your swain

Come and assist me this very moment

For to pass away some time

Singing sweetly and completely

Songs of pleasure and of love

For my heart is with them all together

Though I live not where I love

When I sleep I dream about you

When I wake I find no rest

For every moment thinking of you

My heart affixed in your breast

Although far distance may be assistance

From my mind his love to remove

Yet my heart is with him all together

Though I live not where I love

All the world shall be one religion

Living things shall cease to die

If ever I prove false to my jewel

Or any way my love deny

The world shall change and be most strange

If ever I my mind remove

For my heart is with him all together

Though I live not where I love

So farewell lads and farewell lasses

Now I think I've got my choice

I will away to yonder mountain

Where I think I hear his voice

And if he calls then I will follow

Though the world it is so wide

For my heart is with him all together

Thought I live not where I love

(repeat first verse)