Linda Thompson, formerly married to Richard Thompson but incredibly talented in her own right, sings a song of the most exquisite beauty.
Linda Thompson I Live Not Where I Love
I Live Not Where I Love
Come all ye maids who live at a distance Many's the 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 take no rest Every moment thinking of you My heart is fixed in your breast Though far distance May be of assistance If from my mind your love remove Well my heart is with you altogether Though I live not where I love
All the world shall be of one religion All living things shall cease to die If ever I should prove false to my jewel Or any way his love deny World shall change And be most strange If from my mind your love remove For my heart is with you altogether Though I live not where I love
So farewell lads and farewell lassies Now I think I've made my choice I will away to yonder mountain Where I think I hear his voice And if he beckons I will follow Round the world that it is so wide For young Thomas he did promise I should be his lawful bride
O, come all ye maids who live at a distance Many's the 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
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