Clarence Ashley - The House Carpenter lyrics

rate me

We'll met we'll met said an old true love

We'll met we'll met said he

I'm just returning from the salt salt sea and it's all

For the love of thee

Climb in climb in my old true love

And have a seat with me

It's been three-fourths of a long long year since

Together we have been

Well I can't come in or I can't sit down

For I haven't but a moment's time

They say you're married to a house carpenter and your

Heart will never be mine

Now it's I coulda married a king's daughter here

I'm sure she'da married me

But I've forsaken her crowns of gold and it's all for

The love of thee

Now will you forsaken 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

She picked up here little babe

And kisses gave him three

Says stay right here my darling little babe and keep

Your pappa company

Well they hadn't been on ship but about two weeks

I'm sure it wasn't three

Well his true love began to weep and mourn and he

Weeped most bitterly

Says are you a-weepin' for my silver or my gold

Says are you weeping for my store

Are you weeping for that house carpenter whose face

You'll never see any more

No it's I'm not a-weepin' for your silver or your gold

Or neither for your store

I am weeping for my darling little babe whose face I'll

Never see any more

Well they hadn't been on ship but about three weeks

I'm sure it wasn't four

'Til they sprung a leak in the bottom of the ship and

They sunk for to rise no more