Joan Baez – The House Carpenter (Guitar)

      Am        G       Am
"Well met, well met, my own true love,

                G           Am
 Well met, well met," cried he.

             C               G          Em
"I've just returned from the salt, salt sea

Am          G       Am
All for the love of thee."

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"I could have married the King's daughter dear,

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She would have married me.

Am            C          G        Em
But I have forsaken her crowns of gold

Am          G       Am
All for the love of thee."

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"Well, if you could have married the King's daughter dear, 

             G      Am
I'm sure you are to blame,

         C            G           Em
For I am married to a house carpenter,

    Am         G          Am
And find him a nice young man."

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"Oh, will you forsake your house carpenter

        G         Am
And go along with me?

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I'll take you to where the grass grows green,

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To the banks of the salt, salt sea."

      Am              G       Am
"Well, if I should forsake my house carpenter

        G         Am
And go along with thee,

              C          G       Em
What have you got to maintain me on

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And keep me from poverty?"

      Am        G         Am
"Six ships, six ships all out on the sea,

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Seven more upon dry land,

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One hundred and ten all brave sailor men

     Am     G      Am
Will be at your command."

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She picked up her own wee babe,

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Kisses gave him three,

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Said "Stay right here with my house carpenter

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And keep him good company.

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Then she putted on her rich attire,

Am          G    Am
So glorious to behold.

           C     G        Em
And as she trod along her way,

    Am             G          Am
She shone like the glittering gold.

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Well, they'd not been gone but about two weeks,

Am        G       Am
I know it was not three.

Am             C      G      Em
When this fair lady began to weep,

    Am        G     Am
She wept most bitterly.

      Am        G       Am
"Ah, why do you weep, my fair young maid,

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Weep it for your golden store?

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Or do you weep for your house carpenter

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Who never you shall see anymore?"

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"I do not weep for my house carpenter

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Or for any golden store.

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I do weep for my own wee babe,

    Am            G       Am
Who never I shall see anymore."

      Am              G        Am
Well, they'd not been gone but about three weeks,

Am          G       Am
I'm sure it was not four.

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Our gallant ship sprang a leak and sank,

Am       G       Am
Never to rise anymore.

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One time around spun our gallant ship,

Am         G          Am
Two times around spun she,

Am           C              G       Em
Three times around spun our gallant ship

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And sank to the bottom of the sea.

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"What hills, what hills are those, my love,

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That rise so fair and high?"

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"Those are the hills of heaven, my love,

    Am      G       Am
But not for you and I."

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"And what hills, what hills are those, my love,

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Those hills so dark and low?"

Am             C        G        Em
"Those are the hills of hell, my love,

     Am       G      Am
Where you and I must go."