"The True Lover's Farewell", also known as "The Turtle Dove" or "Ten Thousand Miles" is a song known in both England and America. Cecil Sharp collected nine variants in the Appalachian Mountains. "The True Lover's Farewell" appeared in Roxburghe Ballads (1710). It was also in Five Excellent New Songs (1792). The song is similar to a song "Queen Mary's Lament" that was printed in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803). Robert Burns had a copy of a broadside of the tune. It was the source for many of the lines from "My Love is Like a Red, Red, Rose". "True lover" is the kind of motif that appears many times in folk songs. A hero or heroine's white horse is usually a "milk white steed" and a lover is usually a "true lover". When the relationship goes wrong, the "true lover" becomes a "false true lover". It was printed in Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society (1955), Cohen, Seeger and Wood's Old Time String Band Songbook (1964) (as "The Storms Are on the Ocean"), Friedman's The Penguin Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World (1956), Karpeles' The Crystal Spring: English Folk Songs Collected by Cecil Sharp (1975), Lomax and Lomax's Our Singing Country (1941) (as "My Old True Love"), Lunsford and Stringfield's 30 and 1 Folk Songs from the Southern Mountains (1929), Sandburg's The American Songbag (1927), Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917), Sharp & Karpeles' 80 English Folk Songs (1968), Sharp's One Hundred English Folksongs (1916), Silber and Silber's Folksinger's Wordbook (1973) (as "The Storms Are On The Ocean", "He's Gone Away" and "Turtle Dove"). It was included in the Roud Folk Song Index as #49. It was recorded by Aunt Molly Jackson on Anglo-American Shanties, Lyric Songs, Dance Tunes and Spirituals (1939) (as "Ten Thousand Miles"), Bascom Lamar Lunsford on Ballads, Banjo Tunes, and Sacred Songs of Western North Carolina (1996) (as "Little Turtle Dove"), New Lost City Ramblers on 20 Years/Concert Performances (1978) (as "It's Hard to Leave You, Swet Love") and Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson on Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson at Folk City (1963) (as "Storms Are On the Ocean").