If My Love Loves Me

Lyrics

[Verse 1] If my love loves me and she lets me not know This is a dowie chance I wish that I the same could do Though my love were in France, France Though my love were in France [Verse 2] But I will write a broad letter And write it so perfite That if she will not of me rue I'll bid her come to my lyke, lyke I'll bid here come to my lyke [Verse 3] And when she looked the letter on A light laugh thеn ga'e she But erе she read it to an end A tear blinded her e'e, e'e A tear blinded her e'e [Verse 4] "O saddle to me a steed, father Saddle to me a steed For word has come to me this night That my true love is dead, dead That my true love is dead" [Verse 5] "The steeds are in the stable, daughter The keys are casten by You cannot win the night, daughter The morn you'd better away, away The morn you'd better away" [Verse 6] But she's cut off her yellow locks A little above her e'e And she is on to Willie's lyke As fast as go could she, she As fast as go could she [Verse 7] As she went over yon high hill head She saw a dowie light It was the candles at Willie's lyke And the torches burning bright, bright And the torches burning bright [Verse 8] Three of Willie's oldest brothers Were making for him a bier One half of it was good red gold The other silver clear, clear The other silver clear [Verse 9] Three of Willie's older sisters Were making for him a sark The one half of it was cambric fine The other needle work, work The other needle work [Verse 10] Out spoke the youngest of the sisters As she stood on the fleer "How happy would our brother have been If you'd been sooner here, here If you'd been sooner here" [Verse 11] She's lifted up the green covering And gave him kisses three Then he looked up into her face The blythe blink in his e'e, e'e The blythe blink in his e'e [Verse 12] O then he started to his feet And thus to her said he "Fair Annie since we've met again Parted no more we'll be, be Parted no more we'll be"