I LIVE NOT WHERE I LOVE
Key:   C  (G, capo 5)


Come all you maids who live at a distance, many a mile 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 him altogether, 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 e'er fixed in your breast.
Although far distance may be of assistance
From my mind his love to remove,
Yet my heart is with him altogether,
Though I live not where I love.


All the world should be of one religion,
All living things should cease to die,
If ever I should prove false to my jewel,
Or any way his love deny.                             (my love)
The world would change and be most strange
If ever I inconstant prove,                (my mind remove)
For my heart is with him altogether,
Though I live not where I love.


So farewell lads, and farewell lasses:
Now I think I've made 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 ocean be so wide,
                    (Through the world though it is so wide)
For my heart is with him altogether,
Though I live not where I love.