Well met, well met, said an old true love.
Well met, well met, said he.
I have just returned 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 by me.
It's been three-fourths of a long, long year
Since together we have been.

I can't come in and I cant sit down,
For I've only a moments time.
They say you're married to a house carpenter
And your heart will never be mine.

I could've married the king's daughter fair.
And she would have married me.
But I have forsaken her crowns of gold,
And it's all for the love of thee.

Now will you forsake your house carpenter,
And go along with me?
I'll take you where the grass grows green
On the banks of the deep blue sea.

Then she picked up her darling little babe
And kisses she gave it three.
Saying stay right here you darling little babe,
And keep your papa company.

They had not been on the ship two weeks.
I'm sure it was not three.
Til this true love began to weep and to mourn
And she wept most bitterly.

Saying are you weeping for my silver and my gold?
Saying are you weeping for my store?
Or are you weeping for your house carpenter
Whose face you'll never see no more?

A curse, a curse, to the sailor, she cried.
A curse, a curse, she swore.
You robbed me of the darling little babe
That I shall never see no more.

They had not been on the ship three weeks.
I'm sure it was not four.
When there came a leak, in the bottom of the ship
And sank them for to rise no more.

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