House Carpenter Songtext
von Alan Jeffries

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 old true love
And have a seat by me
For 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′ve only a moment′s time
They say you were 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


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 picked up her darling little babe
And kisses she gave it three
Saying stay right here my sweet little babe
And keep your papa company

Well they had not been on the ship two weeks
I′m sure it was not three
Till his true love began to weep and moan
And she wept most bitterly

Saying are you a weeping for my silver and my gold?
Or are you a weeping for my store?
Or are you a weeping for that house carpenter
Who's face you′ll never see no more?

A curse, a curse to the sailor she cried
A curse, a curse she swore
For 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
Till there came a leak in the bottom of the ship
And it sank them for to rise no more