Nic Jones - Fare Thee Well My Dearest Dear lyrics

Fare thee well my dearest dear fare thee well adieu For I must go to sea for the love of you Love and a faithful heart and you must bear the smart Since you and I must part my own true dove. Silver and gold houses and land What more can you desire love? Don't complain Jewels you shall have and servants to wait all on you But you must think on me when I am gone. Your gold I'll count like dust when that you are fled Your absence proves me lost and it strikes me dead When you are from me servants then I'll have none at all I'd rather live alone than in company. So she dressed up herself all in man's attire For to go to sea it was her heart's desire And she's cut her lovely hair and no mistrust was there That she a maiden was all at that time To Venice we were bound all in hearts content No thoughts of our ship being wrecked away we went And from London in one day then we were cast away Which caused our lives to lay in discontent Our ship being cast away misfortune it did frown And I swam to the shore but my love was drowned And now she lies in the deep in everlasting sleep Which causes me to weep for evermore