music: Seidenstricker/Werz
lyrics: Christopher Marlowe (engl. Dichter, 1564-1593)
original title: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" 

Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Or woods or steepy mountain yields.

And I will make you beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies;
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider’d all with leaves of myrtle.

Chorus:
And we will sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

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

And I will make you beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies;
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider’d all with leaves of myrtle.

Chorus:
And we will sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

A belt of straw and ivy-buds
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may you move,
Come live with me and be my Love.

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love.

Chorus:
And we will sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals. (Variation)