Natalie Merchant "House Carpenter" |
�well met, well met and I know true love well met, well met�, said he �I'm just returning from the salt, salt sea and it's all for the love of thee� �come in, come in my own true love and have a seat with me it's been three-fourths of a long, long year since together we have been� �no I can't come in and I can't sit down for I have but a moment's time they say that you're married to a house carpenter and your heart shall never be mine� �well I could have married the king's daughter fair she would have married me but I forsaked upon her crowns of gold and it's all for the love of thee� �now will you forsake on your house carpenter and go along with me? I'll take you where the grass grows green on the banks of the bitter reeds� she pick'd up her wee little babe and kisses, gave it three saying, �stay right here my darling little one keep your papa company� now they had not been on the ship two weeks I swear it was not three when his true love began to weep and moan and she wept most bitterly �are you weeping for my silver and gold are you weeping for my store or are you weeping for that house carpenter that you ne'er shall see no more?� �a curse on the sailor she cried a curse, a curse she swore you robbed me of my sweet little babe that I never shall see no more!� well, they had not been on the ship three weeks I swear it was not four until there came a leak in the ship and she sank to rise no more Lyric from www.lyricmania.com |