Come, Live With Me

from The Weight of Smoke by Edible Tent

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Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills and fields
Woods or steepy mountains yield.

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we’d pull;
Fair-lined slippers for the cold
With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw and ivy buds
With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

O could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date, nor age no need,
Then those delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love.

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from The Weight of Smoke, released January 3, 2022
Words: Sir Walter Raleigh and Christopher Marlowe. Music. Peter Spafford. Piano/vocal: Spafford. Double bass: Dave Bowie Jnr.

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Edible Tent is the moniker for projects by Peter Spafford in collaboration with other artists. Peter Spafford is a writer and songwriter based in Leeds. He is also one half of Schwa.

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