I Live Not Where I Love

Come all, you maids, that live at a distance

Many 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 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 aches within my breast

Although far distance may be of assistance

Still my mind is like to rove

For my heart is with him altogether

Though I live not where I love

All the world shall be one religion

Living things shall cease to die

Before that I prove false to my jewel

Or any way his love deny

The world shall change and be most strange

If ever I my love 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 know my choice

I will away to yonder mountain

Where I think I hear his voice

And if he calls, then I will follow

Through the world though it is so wide

For young Thomas, he has promised

That I shall be his loving bride

So come all, you maids, that live at a distance

Many 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 him altogether

Though I live not where I love