House Carpenter chords by Faun Fables

Chords with lyrics

intro: C minorCm (fast travis picking during the whole song)

C minorCm
Well met, well met my own true love
well met, well met cried he.
I've just returned from the salt salt sea
and it's all for the love of thee.

C minorCm    A#mA#m   C minorCm
Come in, come in my own true love,
C minorCm    A#mA#m     C minorCm
and have a seat with me,
  C minorCm              A#mA#m
for it's been three quarters of a long, long year
   C minorCm    A#mA#m   C minorCm
since together we have been.

C minorCm
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.

C minorCm       A#mA#m       C minorCm
And I could've married with the king's daughter there,
      A#mA#m   C minorCm
so free she was with me.
           A#mA#m
But I forsook all the crowns and gold
     C minorCm     A#mA#m   C minorCm
and it's all for the love of thee.

C minorCm        A#mA#m       C minorCm
If you would have married with the king's daughter there,
       A#mA#m  C minorCm
I'm sure you are to blame.
                 A#mA#m
And it's now I've married to the house carpenter
  C minorCm       A#mA#m    C minorCm
and I'm sure he's a fine young man.

C minorCm
Well will you forsake your house carpenter
and come away with me?
I'll take you down to where the grass grows green,
down by the sweet dundee.

C minorCm       A#mA#m  C minorCm
(So she picked up her tine wee babe
      A#mA#m   C minorCm
and kisses gave it three,
             A#mA#m
saying stay right here my sweet, sweet dear
  C minorCm     A#mA#m C minorCm
and keep your father company.

C minorCm            A#mA#m   C minorCm
Well they hadn't been on ship but about 2 weeks,
      A#mA#m   C minorCm
I'm sure it was not 3,
Cm...
when she espied his cloven foot
and began to weep most bitterly.)

C minorCm   A#mA#m       C minorCm
Are you weeping for your house and land,
      A#mA#m       C minorCm
or are you weeping for your store,
              A#mA#m
or are you weeping for the house carpenter
   C minorCm  A#mA#m         C minorCm
whose face you'll never see no more?

C minorCm     A#mA#m      C minorCm
No I'm not weeping for my house and land,
    A#mA#m      C minorCm
I'm not weeping for my store,
C minorCm
it's now I'm weeping for my soul, so dear,
whose purity I'll never see no more.

(Well they 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 no more.)

C minorCm    A#mA#m     C minorCm
Well met, well met my own true love love,
     A#mA#m      C minorCm
well met, well met cried he.
             A#mA#m    C minorCm
I've just returned to the salt salt sea