House Carpenter-Natalie Merchant

[ti:House Carpenter] [ar:Natalie Merchant] [al:The House Carpenter's Daughter] [by:] [offset:0] [00:16.21]Well met well met [00:18.52]And I know true love [00:21.96]Well met well met said he [00:27.09]I'm just returning from the salt salt sea [00:34.02]And it's all for the love of thee [00:42.09]Come in come in [00:44.46]My own true love [00:47.77]And have a seat with me [00:53.77]It's been three-fourths [00:56.33]Of a long long year [00:59.21]Since together we have been [01:05.21] [01:07.59]O I can't come in [01:09.96]And I can't sit down [01:13.27]For I have but a moment's time [01:17.09] [01:19.09]They say that you're married [01:21.40]To a house carpenter [01:24.96]And your heart shall never be mine [01:33.28]Well I could have married [01:35.59]The king's daughter fair [01:39.59]She would have married me [01:44.53]But I forsaked upon [01:47.71]Her crowns of gold [01:50.46]And it's all for the love of thee [01:58.40]Ow will you forsake on [02:01.15]Your house carpenter [02:04.46]And go along with me [02:09.46]I'll take you where [02:12.34]The grass grows green [02:15.03]On the banks of the bitter reeds [02:47.84]She pick up her wee little babe [02:53.28]And kisses gave it three saying [02:58.97]Stay right here my darling little one [03:05.58]Keep your papa company [03:11.84] [03:36.73]Now they had not been [03:39.10]On the ship two weeks [03:42.98]I swear it was not three [03:46.86]When his true love began [03:50.48]To weep and moan [03:53.61]And she wept most bitterly [03:56.04]Re you weeping [04:01.29]For my silver and gold [04:03.55]Are you weeping for my store or are [04:08.23]You weeping for that house carpenter [04:12.22] [04:18.01]That you ner shall see no more [04:25.58]Curse on the sailor she cried [04:29.71]A curse a curse she swore [04:36.33]You robbed me of my sweet little babe [04:41.89]That I never shall see no more [05:19.02]Well they had not been [05:22.02]On the ship three weeks [05:26.83]I swear it was not four [05:33.33]Until there came a leak in the ship [05:40.20]And she sank [05:42.33]To rise no more