I wonder what is keeping my true love this night

I wonder what is keeping him out of my sight

I wonder if he knows of the pain I endure

And stays from me this night I'm not sure


Oh love are you coming your cause to advance

Or yet are you waiting for a far far better chance

Are you coming for to tell me you've a new love in store

Or are you coming for to tell me you love me no more


For I can love lightly and I can love strong

I can love the old love till the new love comes on

I only said I loved you for to give your heart ease

And when I'm not with you I'll love whom I please


There's gold in my pocket and pain in my heart

For I can't love a man with too many sweethearts

You're my first and only false love but it's lately I knew

That the stronger I loved you the falser you grew


The spring grass grows the greenest and spring water runs clear

I'm sorry and tormented for the love of my dear

Your love it lies so lightly as the dew on the thorn

That's there in the evening and away with the dawn