I Live Not Where I Love chords by Mary Black

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
F C Dm7 G7 C F C
F G7  C F C  G7 C

Verse:
        F     C
Oh, come all ye maids who live at a distance
          F    G7
Many's a mile from off your sway
   C   F      C
Come and assist me this very moment
       G7    C
For to pass away some time
F        Dm7  G
Singing sweetly and completely
C         F   G
Songs of pleasure and of love
    C    F    C
For me heart is with him altogether
         G7   C
Though I live not where I love

Verse:
    F    C
When I sleep, I dream about you
        F    G7
When I wake, I take no rest
C   F   C
Every moment thinking on you
          G7   C
My heart o'er fixed in your breast
   F          Dm7    G
But although far distance maybe of assistance
  C         F   G
If from my mind your love remove
    C    F    C
For me heart is with him altogether
         G7   C
Though I live not where I love

Instrumental:
F C Dm7 G7

Verse:
C    F      C
All the world shall be of no religion
            F    G7
All living things shall cease to die
  C  F       C
If ever I should prove false to my jewel
        G7   C
Or any way his love deny
    F           Dm7   G
Oh, the world shall change and be most strange
  C         F   G
If from my mind your love remove
    C    F    C
For me heart is with him altogether
         G7   C
Though I live not where I love

Verse:
      F    C
So farewell lads and farewell lassies
         F    G7
Now I think I've made my choice
 C   F   C
I will away to yonder mountain
        G7    C
Where I think I hear his voice
  F       Dm7  G
And if he hollows I will follow
 C           F    G
Around the world though it's so wide
C     F    C
For young Thomas, he did promise
        G7   C
I should be his lawful bride

Instrumental:
F C Dm7 G7

Verse:
     C   F     C
Oh, come all ye maids who live at a distance
          F    G7
Many's a mile from off your sway
   C   F      C
Come and assist me this very moment
       G7    C
For to pass away some time
F        Dm7  G
Singing sweetly and completely
C         F   G
Songs of pleasure and of love
    C    F    C
For me heart is with him altogether
         G7   C
Though I live not where I love

Outro:
F C Dm7 G7 C