House Carpenter

House Carpenter Lyrics

Song House Carpenter
Artist Natalie Merchant
Album The House Carpenter's Daughter
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[00:16.22] Well met, well met
[00:18.53] 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
[00:34.03] and it's all for the love of thee
[00:42.09] Come in, come in
[00:44.47] my own true love
[00:47.78] and have a seat with me
[00:53.78] it's been three-fourths
[00:56.34] of a long, long year
[00:59.22] since together we have been
[01:05.22]
[01:07.59] o I can't come in
[01:09.97] and I can't sit down
[01:13.28] 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
[01:24.97] 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
[01:50.47] 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
[02:47.85] she pick up her wee little babe
[02:53.29] and kisses, gave it three saying,
[02:58.97] Stay right here my darling little one
[03:05.59] keep your papa company
[03:11.85]
[03:36.74] now they had not been
[03:39.11] 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
[03:56.05] re you weeping
[04:01.30] 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
[04:12.23]
[04:18.02] 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
[04:36.34] you robbed me of my sweet little babe
[04:41.90] that I never shall see no more!
[05:19.02] well, they had not been
[05:22.02] on the ship three weeks
[05:26.84] I swear it was not four
[05:33.33] until there came a leak in the ship
[05:40.21] and she sank
[05:42.34] to rise no more
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