I Live Not Where I Love Lyrics - Live At A Distance - Steeleye Span

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