Well met, well met,
said an old true love
Well met, well met, said he
I've just returned from the salt,
salt sea,
and it's all for the love of thee.
Come in, come in my home true love,
and have a sit 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 of only a moment's time
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
An d 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
An d go along with me?
I'll take you to where the
grass grows green,
on the banks of the deep
blue sea.
Then she picked up her
darlin' little babe,
and kisses she gave it three,
saying,
Stay right here, my darlin' little babe
And keep your papa company
They had not been on the
ship two weeks
I'm sure it was not three
Till his true love began to
weep and to mourn
And she wept most bitterly
Sayin' are you a -weepin' for
my silver and my gold?
Sayin' are you a -weepin' for my store?
Or are you a -weepin' for that
house carpenter
Whose face you'll never see
no more?
A curse, 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 night four
Till there came a leak in the
bottom of the ship
And it sank on ford arise no more