Lyr/Tune Req: I Know My Love

Subject: Music/Lyrics request:I know my love
From: Scotia
Date: 26 Dec 96 - 04:29 AM

I am looking for the music (fiddle) and lyrics to this English tune. I believe the Corries have done a version of it and I know Eliza Carthy has done it as well. I know some of the chorus goes like "... bonny boys are few and if my loves leaves me what shall I do." Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Scotia

Subject: Lyr Add: I KNOW MY LOVE
From: Susan of DT
Date: 26 Dec 96 - 06:58 PM

Yes, I thought we had it in the DT. I searched on [know my love] and found it. The advantage of having your own copy of the digital tradition is that you can hear the tune on any song with a "play.exe" notation at the end. We hope to get the tune playing functional at this site soon.

For your very own copy, send four formatted high-density disks in a stamped self-addressed mailer to:
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I KNOW MY LOVE

I know my love by his way of walking,
And I know my love by his way of talking
And I know my love by his suit of blue
And if my love leaves me, what will I do?

CHO: And still she cried: "I love him the best
But a troubled mind, sure, can get no rest."
And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few,
And if my love leaves me, what will I do?"

There is a dance house in Maradyke
Where my true love goes every night
And takes a strange one upon his knee
And don't you know, now, that vexes me.

I know my love is an arrant rover
And he'll go roaming the wide world over
In foreign parts he may chance to stray
Where all the girls are so bright and gay,

If my love knew I could wash and wring
If my love knew I could weave and spin
I'd make a dress all of the finest kind
But the want of money leaves me behind.

Recorded by Ives, Clancys
@love Courtship
filename[ KNOWLOVE
play.exe KNOWLOVE
SF

Subject: ADD Version: I Know My Love
From:
Date: 20 Jan 97 - 02:19 AM

I can't remember where I learned this--Sometime when I was a child.
I understood it to be a travelling people's song.


The lyrics I learned are:

I know my love by his way of walkin'
And I know my love by his way of talkin'
And I know my love in suit of blue--
And if my love leaves me, what will I do?

Chorus: Ah, but still she cries, "I love him the best!
And a troubled mind, sure, it knows no rest,"
Ah but still she cries, "Bonny boys are few,
And if my love leaves me what will I do.

There is an ale-house down in the town
And there my true love, he sits him down
And he takes another girl on his knee--
And don't you know how that vexes me!

Chorus:

I know my love is a handsome rover
And I know my love roams the whole world over
In some foreign clime, he will chance to tarry
And some foreign girl he will surely marry.

Chorus: