The House Carpenter                                   like the glittering gold.                         
(Joan Baez)                                                                                             
                                                      Well, they'd not been gone but about two weeks,   
"Well met, well met, my own true love, well met,      I know it was not three. When this fair lady      
well met," cried he. "I've just returned from         began to weep, she wept most bitterly.            
the salt, salt sea all for the love of thee."                                                           
                                                      "Ah, why do you weep, my fair young maid, weep    
"I could have married the King's daughter dear,       it for your golden store? Or do you weep for      
she would have married me. But I have forsaken        your house carpenter who never you shall see      
her crowns of gold all for the love of thee."         anymore?"                                         
                                                                                                        
"Well, if you could have married the King's           "I do not weep for my house carpenter or for any  
daughter dear, I'm sure you are to blame. For         golden store. I do weep for my own wee babe, who  
I am married to a house carpenter, and find him       never I shall see anymore."                       
a nice young  man."                                                                                     
                                                      Well, they'd not been gone but about three        
"Oh, sill you forsake your house carpenter and        weeks, I'm sure it was not four. Our gallant      
go along with me? I'll take you to where the          ship sprang a leak and sank, never to rise        
grass grows green, to the banks of the salt,          anymore.                                          
salt sea."                                                                                              
                                                      One time around spun our gallant ship, two times  
"Well, if I should forsake my house carpenter         around spun she, Three times around spun our      
and go along with thee, What have you got to          gallant ship and sank to the bottom of the sea.   
maintain me on and keep me from poverty?"                                                               
                                                      "What hills, what hills are those, my love, that  
"Six ships, six ships all out on the sea, seven       rise so fair and high?" "Those are the hills of   
more upon dry land, One hundred and ten all           heaven, my love, but not for you and I."          
brave sailor men will be at your command."                                                              
                                                      "And what hills, what hills are those, my love,   
She picked up her own wee babe, kisses gave him       those hills so dark and low?" "Those are the      
three. Said, "Stay right here with my house           hills of hell, my love, where you and I must go." 
carpenter and keep him good company."                                                                   
                                                                                                        
Then she put on her rich attire, so glorious to                                                         
behold. And as she trod along her way, she shown