Lyrics:

Fare you well, my own true love,
Farewell for a while;
I'm going away, but I'll be back
If I go ten thousand miles.

Ten thousand miles, it is a long way,
Ten thousand miles or more.
And the rocks may melt and the seas may burn
If I no more return.

Oh don't you see yon lonesome dove
Sitting on yon ivy tree:
She's making her moan for the loss of her own
As I shall do for mine.

Oh come back, my own true love,
And stay a while with me;
For if I knew a friend all on this earth
You've been a friend to me.

(repeat first verse)