house carpenter Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am]

[Verse 1]
Well [Am]met, well met my own true love
Well met, well met cried he.
I've just returned from the salt salt sea

[Verse 2]
And it's all for the love of thee.
[Am]
Come in, [G]come in my [Am]own true love,
And have [G]a seat with [Am]me,
For it's been three quarters of [G]a long,
long year
Since [Am]together [G]we have [Am]been.

[Verse 3]
[Am]
I can't come in and I can't sit down
I haven't but a moment's time.
But I hear you're married
to the house carpenter
So your love will never be mine.

[Verse 4]
[Am]And I could've mar[G]ried with the
[Am]king's daughter there,
So free she [G]was with [Am]me.
But I forsook all the [G]crowns and gold
And it's [Am]all for the l[G]ove of t[Am]hee.

[Verse 5]
[Am]If you would have ma[G]rried with
the [Am]king's daughter there,
I'm sure you [G]are to [Am]blame.
And it's now I've married to the
[G]house carpenter
[Am]And I'm sure he's [G]a fine young [Am]man.

[Verse 6]
Well [Am]will you forsake your house carpenter
And come away with me?
I'll take you down to where
the grass grows green,

[Verse 7]
Down by the sweet dundee.
[Am]
(So she picked [G]up her [Am]tine wee babe
And kisses [G]gave it [Am]three,
Saying stay right here my [G]sweet,
sweet dear
And [Am]keep your father company.

[Interlude 1]
[Am]

[Verse 8]
Well they [Am]hadn't been [G]on ship
but [Am]about 2 weeks,
[G]I'm sure it was [Am]not 3,
When she espied his cloven foot
And began to weep most bitterly.)
[G]Are you weeping for your

[Verse 9]
[Am]house and land,
Or are you [G]weeping for your [Am]store,
Or are you weeping for your
[G]house carpenter
Whose [Am]face you'll [G]never see no [Am]more?

[Verse 10]
[Am]No I'm not w[G]eeping for
my [Am]house and land,
I'm not [G]weeping for my [Am]store,
It's now I'm weeping for my soul,
so dear,
Whose purity I'll never

[Interlude 2]
see no more.
[Am]

[Verse 11]
(Well they [Am]hadn't been on ship
for about 3 weeks,
I'm sure it was not 4,
When he stomped his foot and
down she sank,
And sank to arise [Bm]no m[Am]ore.)

[Verse 12]
Well met, well [G]met my own [Am]true love love,
Well met, well [G]met cried [Am]he.
I've just returned to the [G]salt salt [Am]sea

[Outro 1]
And it's all for the love of thee.