House Carpenter - Natalie Merchant

[00:16.22]Well met, well met
[00:18.53]and I know true love
[00:21.96]well met, well met? said he
[00:27.09]I'm just returning from the salt, salt sea
[00:34.03]and it's all for the love of thee
[00:42.09]Come in, come in
[00:44.47]my own true love
[00:47.78]and have a seat with me
[00:53.78]it's been three-fourths
[00:56.34]of a long, long year
[00:59.22]since together we have been
[01:05.22]
[01:07.59]o I can't come in
[01:09.97]and I can't sit down
[01:13.28]for I have but a moment's time
[01:17.09]
[01:19.09]they say that you're married
[01:21.40]to a house carpenter
[01:24.97]and your heart shall never be mine
[01:33.28]Well I could have married
[01:35.59]the king's daughter fair
[01:39.59]she would have married me
[01:44.53]but I forsaked upon
[01:47.71]her crowns of gold
[01:50.47]and it's all for the love of thee
[01:58.40]ow will you forsake on
[02:01.15]your house carpenter
[02:04.46]and go along with me?
[02:09.46]I'll take you where
[02:12.34]the grass grows green
[02:15.03]on the banks of the bitter reeds
[02:47.85]she pick up her wee little babe
[02:53.29]and kisses, gave it three saying,
[02:58.97]Stay right here my darling little one
[03:05.59]keep your papa company
[03:11.85]
[03:36.74]now they had not been
[03:39.11]on the ship two weeks
[03:42.98]I swear it was not three
[03:46.86]when his true love began
[03:50.48]to weep and moan
[03:53.61]and she wept most bitterly
[03:56.05]re you weeping
[04:01.30]for my silver and gold
[04:03.55]are you weeping for my store or are
[04:08.23]you weeping for that house carpenter
[04:12.23]
[04:18.02]that you ner shall see no more??
[04:25.58]curse on the sailor she cried
[04:29.71]a curse, a curse she swore
[04:36.34]you robbed me of my sweet little babe
[04:41.90]that I never shall see no more!
[05:19.02]well, they had not been
[05:22.02]on the ship three weeks
[05:26.84]I swear it was not four
[05:33.33]until there came a leak in the ship
[05:40.21]and she sank
[05:42.34]to rise no more