http://folktunes.org/taxonomy/term/48/0 en http://folktunes.org/recordings/17 <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>MP3 url: </label> <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Carpenter/HouseCarpenter.mp3">[link]</a> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label>Source webpage: </label> <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/Carpenter">[link]</a> </div> <div class="flexinode-textarea-10"><div class="form-item"> <label>Lyrics: </label> <p>We'll met we'll met said an old true love<br /> We'll met we'll met said he<br /> I'm just returning from the salt salt sea and it's all for the love of thee</p> <p>Climb in climb in my old true love<br /> And have a seat with me<br /> It's been three-fourths of a long long year since together we have been</p> <p>Well I can't come in or I can't sit down<br /> For I haven't but a moment's time<br /> They say you're married to a house carpenter and your heart will never be mine</p> <p>Now it's I coulda married a king's daughter here<br /> I'm sure she'da married me<br /> But I've forsaken her crowns of gold and it's all for the love of thee</p> <p>Now will you forsaken your house carpenter<br /> And go along with me<br /> I'll take you where the grass grows green on the banks of the deep blue sea</p> <p>She picked up here little ()<br /> And kisses gave him three<br /> Says stay right here my little darling babe and keep your pappa company</p> <p>Well they hadn't been on ship but about two weeks<br /> I'm sure it wasn't three<br /> Well his true love began to weep and mourn and () most bitterly</p> <p>Says are you a-weepin' for my silver or my gold<br /> Says are you weeping for my store<br /> Are you weeping for that house carpenter whose face you'll never see any more</p> <p>No it's I'm not a-weepin' for your silver or your gold<br /> Or neither for your store<br /> I am weeping for my darling little babe whose face I'll never see any more</p> <p>Well they hadn't been on ship but about three weeks<br /> I'm sure it wasn't four<br /> 'Til they sprung a leak in the bottom of the ship and they sunk for to rise no more</p> </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-8"><div class="form-item"> <label>Notes: </label> <p>Recorded on April 14, 1930 in Atlanta, Georgia. This ballad was collected by Child as "The Daemon Lover" (Child No. 243), of which there are several variants. Harry Smith noted that the original version in the British Isles had a "supernatural theme" which didn't make it to North America.</p> </div> </div></div> Clarence Ashley The House Carpenter banjo singing 78rpm ballad lyrics sailor sea vintage Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:12:40 -0500 Forrest Oliphant 17 at http://folktunes.org