House Carpenter(Child 243)

The House Carpenter 

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"Well met, well met," said an old true love,
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"Well met, well met," said he.
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"I've just returned from the salt, salt sea,
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And it's all for the l-ove of thee."

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"Come in, come in, m-y own true love,
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And have a sit with me.
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It's been three-fourths of near ten, long years
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S-ince together w-e  have been."

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"I can't come in and I can't sit down,
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I've but a moment's time.
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They say you've married  a house carpenter,
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And your heart w-ill nev-er be mine."

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"I could have wed the king's daughter fair,
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she would have married me.
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But  I have forsaken her crowns of gold,
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And it's all for the l-ove of thee."

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"Will you forsake your house carpenter
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And go along with me?
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I'll take you to where there's a land so fair
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on the banks of the d-eep blue sea."

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She held her child, her own precious babe
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And kisses gave it three.
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Saying, "Stay right here, my darling little babe,
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A-nd keep your Pa  c-om-pan-y."

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They had not been on the ship two weeks,
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I'm sure it was not three,
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'Til his true love began to weep and mourn,
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And she wept m-ost b-it-ter-ly.

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"She would not hear of the land so fair
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The life she had in store
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Sh-e mourned for her babe and house carpenter,
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Whose faces she'd s-ee no more"

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They had not been on the sea three weeks,
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I'm sure it was not four,
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Th-ere came a leak in the hold of the ship,
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And it sunk for to r-ise no more.