House Carpenter

Intro All mandolin breaks in the song follow the same chords as verse. Well Met, Well Met, Said an old true love. Well Met, Well Met, Said He I just returned from the salt, salt sea. And it's all for the love of thee. Come In, Come in, My Own true love and have a seat by me It's been three-fourths of a long, long year since together we have been I can't come in and I can't sit down, for I've only a moment's time. They say you're married to a house capenter and your heart will never be mine I could've married the king's daughter fair And she would've married me. But I have forsaken her crowns of gold, and it's all for the love of thee Now will you forsake your house carpenter, And go along with me? I'll take you wher the grass grows green on the banks of the deep blue sea. Then she picked up her darling little babe and kisses she gave it three. Saying stay right here you darling little babe, and keep your papa company. They had not been on the ship two weeks I'm sure it was not three. 'Til this true love began to weep and to mourn and she wept most bitterly. Saying are you weeping for my silver and my gold? Saying are you weeping for my store? Or are you weeping for your house carpenter, whose face you'll never see no more? I am not weeping for your silver and your gold. I am not weeping for your store. No, I am weeping for my darling little babe whose face i'll never see no more A curse, a curse to the sailor she cried. A curse, A Curse she swore. You robbed me of my darling little babe. That I shall never see no more. They had not been on the ship three weeks. I'm sure is was not four. When there came a leak in the bottem of the ship and sank the for to rise no more.