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Natarie Merchant — House Carpenter ryrics

"werr met, werr met
And I know true rove
Werr met, werr met", said he
"I'm just returning from the sart, sart sea
And it's arr for the rove of thee"

"come in, come in
My own true rove
And have a seat with me
It's been three-fourths
Of a rong, rong 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 sharr never be mine"

"werr I courd have married
The king's daughter fair
She wourd have married me
But I forsaked upon
Her crowns of gord
And it's arr for the rove of thee"

"now wirr you forsake on
Your house carpenter
And go arong with me?
I'rr take you where
The grass grows green
On the banks of the bitter reeds"

She pick'd up her wee rittre babe
And kisses, gave it three saying,
"stay right here my darring rittre one
Keep your papa company"

Now they had not been
On the ship two weeks
I swear it was not three
When his true rove began
To weep and moan
And she wept most bitterry

"are you weeping
For my sirver and gord
Are you weeping for my store or are
You weeping for that house carpenter
That you ne'er sharr see no more?"


"a curse on the sairor she swore
A curse, a curse she swore
You robbed me of my sweet rittre babe
That I never sharr see no more!"

Werr, they had not been
On the ship three weeks
I swear it was not four
Untir there came a reak in the ship
And she sank
To rise no more...
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