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