House Carpenter-Dave Van Ronk

[ti:House Carpenter] [ar:Dave Van Ronk] [al:Inside Dave Van Ronk] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]House Carpenter (木匠) - Dave Van Ronk [00:04.34]Well met well met my own true love [00:09.75] [00:10.69]Well met well met cried he [00:14.70] [00:15.48]I've just returned from the salt salt sea [00:20.18]And it's all for the sake of thee [00:24.63] [00:25.36]I could have married a King's daughter there [00:30.15]So freely she was with me [00:33.67] [00:34.62]But I have forsaken a crown of gold [00:39.41]And it's all for the sake of thee [00:43.35] [00:44.07]If you could have married [00:46.57]A King's daughter there [00:48.91]I'm sure you are to blame [00:52.55] [00:53.33]For I've recently wedded a house carpenter [00:57.99]And I think he's a fine young man [01:01.74] [01:02.68]Will you forsake your house carpenter [01:07.19]And come and go along with me [01:10.99] [01:11.74]I'll take you to where the grass grows green [01:16.29]On the banks of sweet Italy [01:19.97] [01:20.98]Well she picked up her dear little babe [01:24.92] [01:25.67]Kisses she gave him three [01:29.11] [01:29.67]Saying "stay at home my dearest babe [01:34.29]And keep your daddy company " [01:38.14] [01:40.08]They had not been sailin' but about two days [01:44.21]I'm sure it was not three [01:47.91] [01:48.63]When this fair lady began to weep [01:52.56] [01:53.08]And she wept most bitterly [01:56.89] [01:57.91]"Why are you weepin' my dearest dear [02:01.63] [02:02.17]Are you weepin' for my golden store " [02:05.67] [02:06.40]Or are you weeping for your house carpenter [02:10.94]Whose face you'll never see anymore [02:14.41] [02:15.39]"I am not weepin' for my house carpenter [02:20.01]Nor for any store [02:23.51] [02:24.28]But I am weepin' for my own dear babe [02:28.78]Whose face I'll never see anymore " [02:32.32] [02:33.15]What hills what hillls are those my dear [02:37.56]What hills so fair and high [02:41.44] [02:42.00]Those are the hills of heaven my dear [02:46.61]But not for you or I [02:50.06] [02:50.95]What hills what hills are those my love [02:55.42]What hills so dark and low [02:59.05] [02:59.77]Those are the hills of hell my dear [03:04.25]Where you and I must go [03:07.87] [03:08.69]They had not been sailin' [03:10.61]But about three days [03:12.56] [03:13.12]I'm sure that it was not four [03:16.43] [03:17.36]When the ship sprang [03:18.61]A leak in the bottom of the deck [03:21.74]And she sank for to ride no more