Fare-thee-well my own true love,
farewell for a while, I'm goin away.
But I'll be back, though I go 10,000 miles.

10,000 miles my own true love,
10,000 miles or more the rocks may melt and the seas may burn if I should not return.

Oh don't you see that lonesome dove,
sitting on an ivy tree?
She's weepin' for her own true love,
as I shall weep for mine.

Oh come ye back my own true love
and stay a while with me.
If I had a friend on all this earth
you've been a friend to me.