I Know My Love Lyrics - The Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration - The Chieftains

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I Know My Love by his way of walking 

And I Know My Love by his way of talking 

And I Know My Love dressed in a suit of blue 

And if my love leaves me, what will I do? 

And still she cried, "I love him the best 

And a troubled mind sure can know no rest" 

And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few 

And if my love leaves me, what will I do?" 

There is a dance house in Maradyke 

And there my true love goes every night 

He takes a strange girl upon his knee 

Well, now don't you think that, that vexes me? 

And still she cried, "I love him the best 

And a troubled mind sure can know no rest" 

And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few 

And if my love leaves me, what will I do?" 

If my love knew, I can wash and wring 

If my love knew, I can sew and spin 

I'd make a coat of the finest kind 

But the want of money sure leaves me behind 

And still she cried, "I love him the best 

And a troubled mind sure can know no rest" 

And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few 

And if my love leaves me, what will I do?" 

I Know My Love is an arrant rover 

I know he'll wander the wild world over 

In dear old Ireland, he'll no longer tarry 

An American girl, he's sure to marry 

And still she cried, "I love him the best 

And a troubled mind sure can know no rest" 

And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few 

And if my love leaves me, what will I do?" 

And still she cried, "I love him the best 

And a troubled mind sure can know no rest" 

And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few 

And if my love leaves me, what will I do?" 

What will I do?