Q: I'll bet you found that song while searching for I LOST MY LOVE AND I CARE NOT, didn't you? So did I. I even started to transcribe it, but I gave up when I realized it didn't really have a whole lot in common with COURTING TOO SLOW except for the similarity of that one phrase. Actually the first thing that came to mind was ON TOP OF OLD SMOKY which has the line "I lost my true lover from courting too slow."

I'm still mystified by my (our?) failure to find a credible origin for I LOST MY LOVE AND I CARE NOT.