I Wonder What Is Keeping My True Love This Night

I wonder what is keeping my true love this night
 I wonder what is keeping him out of my sight
 I wonder if he knows of the pain I endure
 And stays from me this night I'm not sure
 Oh love are you coming your cause to advance
 Or yet are you waiting for a far far better chance
 Are you coming for to tell me you've a new love in store
 Or are you coming for to tell me you love me no more
 For I can love lightly and I can love strong
 I can love the old love till the new love comes on
 I only said I loved you for to give your heart ease
 And when I'm not with you I'll love whom I please
 There's gold in my pocket and pain in my heart
 For I can't love a man with too many sweethearts
 You're my first and only false love but it's lately I knew
 That the stronger I loved you the falser you grew
 The spring grass grows the greenest and spring water runs clear
 I'm sorry and tormented for the love of my dear
 Your love it lies so lightly as the dew on the thorn
 That's there in the evening and away with the dawn