Here's the Steeleye Span version of the song:

SOME RIVAL
[Trad. arr. Kemp / Prior / Hart / Carthy / Kirkpatrick]

Some rival has stolen my true love away
So I in old England no longer can stay
I will swim the wide ocean around my fair breast
To find out my true love, the one I love the best

And when I have found out my joy and delight
I will welcome him kindly by day and by night
For the bells shall be ringing and the drums make a noise
For to welcome my true love with ten thousand joys

Here's a health to all lovers that are loyal and just
Here's confusion to the rival that lives in distrust
For it's I'll be as constant as a true turtle dove
And it's never will I prove false to my love

(repeat first verse)

Steeleye Span recorded this lovely song for their tenth album, Storm Force Ten.

Compare this to Eliza Carthy singing The Americans Have Stolen My True Love Away on her album Rice.




source: Reinhard Zierke, zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de