From Ky. in the 1920s:

CARELESS LOVE

Love O love, O careless love,
Love O love, O careless love,
Love O love, O careless love,
You see what love has done to me.

Gone and broke this heart of mine,(3x)
It'll break that heart of yours sometimes.

Sorrow, sorrow to my heart, (3x)
When me and my truelove must part.

Once I wore my apron low, (3x)
I could not keep you from my door.

Now I wear my apron high, (3x)
You pass my door and go on by.

I cried last night and the night before, (3x)
I'll cry tonight and cry no more.

O how I wish that train would come, (3x)
And take me back where I come from.

Love O love (repeat first verse to close)


Note: Some of the other verses given above worked themselves in over the years since then, but these are our basic verses.      

In the '50's, I sang with and recorded Jeannie Robertson, in Aberdeen. To my surprise she had a song which had some of these verses, among others we didn't have. One of her "matching" verses:

O it's when my apron it bided low,
My true love followed through frost and snow;
But noo my apron it is tae my chin-
And he passes my door, but he'll nae spier in.

Jean