A really obscure song!!!

boxcar mike · Newbie Alert Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 3

Here's one you'll need to be acquainted with the really abstruse to know, but if you can help...

I don't know who sang / wrote it, etc., but back in the 1940s/1950s when I was a nipper, I used to hear and sing a song. It was in 4/4 time, and the chorus, the only part I recall, went:

"Ten thousand miles away from home,
Ten thousand miles I'll be;
And the loss of you will break my heart
And will mean the death of me."

(Some of the "little" words may differ, for example the last line might be "IT will mean the death of me", but only minor details.)

I need to know the rest of the lyrics, and whether the verses have a different melody to the chorus or the same. (I think it's the same.) If different, I'd like to find out what that melody is.

Anybody know it, or can tell me where I can get sheet music, or who sang it, or any other info.?

All help gratefully received, with thanks in advance!!

paperboy · Little Guppy Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 34

(try this)

Ten Thousand Miles

Traditional / Nic Jones

Fare you well my own true love

And farewell for a while.

I’m going away, but I’ll be back

If I go ten thousand miles.

Ten thousand miles, my own true love,

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 that lonesome dove,

Sitting on yon ivy tree,

She’s weeping for her own true love

Just as I shall weep for mine.

Oh come back my own true love

And stay a while with me

For if I had a friend all on this earth,

You’ve been a friend to me.

And fare you well my own true love

And farewell for a while.

I’m going away, but I’ll be back

If I go ten thousand miles.