The House Carpenter-Doc Watson

[ti:The House Carpenter] [ar:Doc Watson] [al:The Definitive] [offset:0] [00:01.54]The House Carpenter - Doc Watson [00:09.41]We've met we've met my old true love [00:12.54] [00:13.59]We've met we've met said he [00:15.63] [00:17.29]I've just returned from the salt salt sea [00:20.43] [00:21.26]And it's all for the love of thee [00:23.39] [00:26.17]I could have married the King's daughter fair [00:29.37] [00:30.11]She would have married me [00:31.99] [00:33.90]But I've forsaken her crown of gold [00:36.86] [00:37.83]And it's all for the love of thee [00:39.99] [00:45.35]Come in come in my old true love [00:48.61] [00:49.47]Come in she said to him [00:51.60] [00:52.89]For it's been three fourths of a long long year [00:56.19] [00:56.97]Since together we have been [00:59.03] [01:00.63]No I can't come in nor I can't sit down [01:03.95] [01:04.94]For I have but a moment's time [01:06.95] [01:08.54]And they say that [01:09.97]You're married to a house carpenter [01:11.69] [01:12.46]And your heart will never be mine [01:14.66] [01:22.10]Will you come with me my old true love [01:25.13] [01:26.14]Oh come with me said he [01:28.04] [01:29.49]And I'll take you to where the grass grows green [01:32.86] [01:33.61]On the banks of Bittery [01:35.10] [01:39.09]Then she picked up her sweet little babe [01:41.78] [01:42.87]And kisses she gave it three [01:44.67] [01:46.43]Sayin stay at home my darlin little babe [01:49.55] [01:50.32]And keep your papa company [01:51.89] [02:02.61]Then he jumped on a milk white steppe [02:05.35] [02:06.29]And her on a dapple grey [02:08.25] [02:09.66]They rode until they came to the banks of a sea [02:13.65]Three hours before the break of day [02:15.95] [02:17.54]They had not been on the ship two weeks [02:20.55] [02:21.41]I'm sure it was not three [02:23.16] [02:25.06]Until his true love began to weep and to mourn [02:28.15] [02:29.08]And she wept most bitterly [02:30.40] [02:36.31]Oh is it for my silver you weep [02:39.32] [02:40.53]Is it for my store [02:42.30] [02:43.82]Or is it for that house carpenter [02:46.38] [02:47.81]Whose face you'll never see no more [02:49.84] [02:51.40]It's neither for you silver I weep [02:54.28] [02:55.53]And neither for your store [02:57.09] [02:59.00]But it's all for the sake of my sweet little babe [03:02.10] [03:02.94]Whose face I'll never see no more [03:05.09] [03:11.18]Then a curse a curse to the sailor she cried [03:14.17] [03:15.22]A curse a curse she swore [03:17.07] [03:18.81]You've robbed me of my house carpenter [03:21.49] [03:22.66]Whose face I'll never see no more [03:24.64] [03:26.41]They had not been on the ship three weeks [03:29.20] [03:30.08]I'm sure it was not four [03:32.08] [03:33.72]Till they sprang a leak in the bottom of the ship [03:37.56]And it sunk for to rise no more [03:39.76]