I Live Not Where I Love: C19 West Country tune
'No tune seems to be more generally known by tradition. I have been favoured with copies from various and widely distant parts of the country. Captain Darnall had learnt it from "old Harry Smith, the fiddler, of Nunnington, near Kirby Moorside;" Mr Edward Loder had repeatedly heard it in the West of England. The late George Macfarren recollected it, and the words he heard had the burden, "I live not where I love." ... The versions from different parts of the country differ in some points, especially in the terminations of the phrases, but that might be expected, as it was gathered from untutored singers. The ... West Country version has a thoroughly Somersetshire ending. It was given to me by Mr Edward Loder.'
William Chappell, Popular Music of the Olden Time, II, 1859, 452-3. Click on the staff notation for a midi rendition.
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