"Well met, well met   And I know true love   Well met, well met”, said he   “I'm just returning 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 with me   It's been three-fourths   Of a long, long year   Since together we have been”       “no I can't come in   And I can't sit down   For I have but a moment's time   They say that you're married   To a house carpenter   And your heart shall never be mine”       “well I could have married   The king's daughter fair   She would have married me   But I forsaked upon   Her crowns of gold   And it's all for the love of thee”       “now will you forsake on   Your house carpenter   And go along with me?    I'll take you where   The grass grows green   On the banks of the bitter reeds”       She pick'd up her wee little babe   And kisses, gave it three saying,    “stay right here my darling little one   Keep your papa company”       Now they had not been   On the ship two weeks   I swear it was not three   When his true love began   To weep and moan   And she wept most bitterly       “are you weeping   For my silver and gold   Are you weeping for my store or are    You weeping for that house carpenter   That you ne'er shall see no more?”          “a curse on the sailor she swore   A curse, a curse she swore   You robbed me of my sweet little babe   That I never shall see no more!”       Well, they had not been   On the ship three weeks   I swear it was not four   Until there came a leak in the ship   And she sank   To rise no more…