House Carpenter - Tony Rice

Well met well met said an old true love

Well met well met said he

I'm just returning 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 sit over of 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'm only a moment's times

They say you're married to a house carpenter

And your heart will never be mine

Well I could have married the king's daughter fair

And she would have married me

But I have forsaken her crowns of gold

And it's all for the love of thee

Now will you forsaken your house carpenter

And go along with me

I'll take you to where the grass grows green

On the banks of the deep blue sea

Then she pickd up her darling little babe

And kisses she gave it three

Saying stay right here my 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 his true love began to weep and 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 that house carpenter

Whose face you'll never see nomore

A curse a curse to the sailor she cried

A curse a curse she swore

You've robbed me of my sweet little babe

That I shall never see no more

They had not been on the ship three weeks

I'm sure it was not four

'Til there came a leak in the bottom of the ships

And it sink in for to rise no more