The housecarpenter
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Well met, well met and my own true love
Well met, well met says he
I'm just returning from the salt, salt sea
And it's all for the love of thee
So come in, come in and my own true love
And have a sit with me
It's been three-fourths of a long, long year
Since together we have been
Oh, I can't come in nor I won't sit down
For I have but a moment's time
For they say you are married to a house carpenter
So your heart won't never be mine
And yet I could have married some king's daughter fair
And she would have married me
But I've forsaken her crowns of gold
And it's all for the love of thee
So it won't you forsaken your house carpenter
And come along with me
I'll take you where the grass grows green
On the banks of Italy
So she's lifted up her little young son
And kisses she's gave him three
Saying "Stay right here my darling little babe
And keep your papa company"
Now they'd not been on board above two weeks
I'm sure it was not three
When his true love began to weep and mourn
And she wept most bitterly
Are you weeping for your silver and your gold?
Are you weeping for your store?
Or are you weeping for your house carpenter
Whose face you'll never see no more?
Oh, a curse, a curse on the sailor she cried
Yes, a curse, a curse she swore
You've robbed me of my little young son
So I never shall see him no more
Oh what hills, what hills are those, my love
Those hills that shine like gold?
Ah, those are the hills of heaven, my love
Where you and I can't go
And what hills, what hills are those, my love
Those hills so dark and cold?
Ah, those are the hills of hell, my love
Where you and I must go
Now they'd not been on board above three weeks
I'm sure it was not four
Before there came a leak in the ship
And she sunk and she never rose more