I Wonder What's Keeping My True Love Tonight?

I wonder what's keeping my true love tonight
I wonder what is keeping you out of my sight
I wonder if you know of the pain I endure
And yet you stay from me this night I'm not sure
Oh love are you coming your own course to advance
Or yet are you waiting a far, far better chance
Are you coming to tell me you've a new love in store
Are you coming to tell me you love me no more
Oh no I'm not coming my own course to advance
Nor yet am I waiting a far, far better chance
I'm coming to tell you I've a new love in store
I'm coming to tell you I love you no more
For I can love lightly and I can love strong
And I can love the old love till a new love comes on
I only said I loved you for to give you a tear
And when I'm not with you I'll love whom I please
I've gold in my pocket and pain in my heart
For I can't love a love with one too many sweethearts
You're my first and only false love but it's lately I knew
The fonder I loved you the falser you'd prove
Spring grass grows the sweetest, spring water runs clear
I'm sorry and tormented with the love of my false dear
Your love it lies as lightly as the dew on the thorn
That descends in the evening, goes away with the dawn
I wonder what's keeping my true love tonight
I wonder what is keeping you out of my sight
I wonder if you know of the pain I endure
And yet you stay from me this night I'm not sure
And yet you stay from me this night I'm not sure