The Housecarpenter Chords

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[Verse 1]
[Ab][G]
[Ab]Well[G] met, well met,
and my own true love
Well met, well met, says he
I am just returnin' [C]from the salt,
[G]salt sea[C],
And it's [G]all for the love [C]of [G]thee.
So come in, come in,
and my old true love,
And have a sit with me.
It's been three -fourths of a long, [C]year
Since [G]together we have been.
Oh, I can't [C]come in[G], nor I
[C]won't sit [G]down,
For I have but a moment's time.
For they say you are married
to [C]a house carpenter,
So your [G]heart will never be mine.
And yet I could have married
[C]some [G]king's daughter fair,
And she would have [Ab]mar ried [G]me
But I've forsaken her
[C]crowns of gold
And it's [G]all for the love of thee
[Abm]So it'[G]s won't you forsaken your house,
carpenter
And come along with me
I'll take you where [C]the grass
grows green
On the [G]banks of Ittory
So she's lifted up [C]her [G]little [C]young [G]son
And kisses she's gave him three
Saying, stay right here,
my darling little [C]babe
And keep [G]your papa company
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[G]
[Abm]Now th[G]ey'd not been on board
above two weeks,
I'm sure it was not three,
When his true love began to weep [C]and mourn,
And she [G]wept most bitterly.
[Ab]Are [G]you weepin' for your silver
[C]and your gold?
[G]Are you weepin' for your store?
Or are you weepin' for your
house -carpen[C]ter,
[G]Whose face you'll never see no more?
[Abm]Oh, a [G]curse, a curse on the sailor,
she cried
Yes, a curse, a curse, she swore
You robbed me of me little [C]young son,
So I [G]never shall see him [Ab]no more[G]
[Abm]Oh, what hi[G]lls, what hills are those,
my love,
those hills that shine like gold,
are those are the hills [C]of heaven,
my love,
[G]where you and I can go.
And what hills, what hills are those,
my love?
Those hills so dark and cold
Are those are the hills [C]of hell,
my love,
[G]where you and I must go
Now they'd not been on board
above three weeks
I'm sure it was not for
Before there came a [C]leak in the ship
An[G]d she sunk and she never rose more
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