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My Love's Gone A​-​Roving

from Sweet Summer Child: Rarities by Summer Russell

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I learned to play the guitar when I was fifteen, and this is the very first song I ever wrote. I'd been listening to the Chieftains' "Tears of Stone" album on repeat for a while.

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My love's gone a-roving
Beyond the dusky twilight
My love's gone a-sailing
Upon the golden sea
My love's gone a-rambling
Into the silvery moonset
My love's gone a-roving
So far away from me

And when he said that he'd always love me
I knew it to be true
And when he promised he'd be returning
I prayed it would be soon

Long hours in the evening
I watched the stars at twilight
Long hours in the morning
I stood beside the sea
Long hours in the evening
I pined for his return, and
Long hours did I weep for him
So far away from me

But when he said that he'd always love me
I knew it to be true
And surely now he is thinking of me
Out on the waves of blue

My love's gone a-roving
And rovers love the twilight
My love's gone a-sailing
For sailors love the sea
My love went a-roving
And left me in the moonlight
My love is a rambler
And not at home with me

Long years they have passed now
I sit alone at twilight
Long years since my love set out
Upon the lonely sea
Long years since I've wept, now
And pined beneath the moonlight
Long years since my rover's gone
So far away from me

So long ago he kissed me
Beneath the autumn leaves
When we were young, I pledged my love
Now it's stolen by the sea
When we were young, I pledged my heart
But it's not come back to me

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from Sweet Summer Child: Rarities, released August 4, 2023

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