Steeleye Span: I Live Not Where I Love

This an amazingly lovely song performed live in 1982 at the Royal Opera Theatre, Adelaide, Australia. Maddy Prior has a lovely contralto voice and this song, quite literally, takes my breath away. Long live Steeleye Span! Come all you maids that live at a distance, Many miles from off your swain, Come and assist me this very moment For to pass away some time. Singing sweetly and completely Songs of pleasure and of love, For my heart is with him altogether, Though I live not where I love. When I sleep I dream about you When I wake I take no rest, For every instant thinking on you, My heart e’er fixed in your breast And although far distance may be assistance From my mind his love to remove But my heart is with him altogether Though I live not where I love