AmGAm
[Verse 1]
AmGAm
"Well met, well met, my own true love,
GAm
Well met, well met," cried he.
CGEm
"I've just returned from the salt, salt sea
AmGAm
All for the love of thee."
[Verse 2]
AmGAm
"I could have married the King's daughter dear,
AmGAm
She would have married me.
AmCGEm
But I have forsaken her crowns of gold
AmGAm
All for the love of thee."
[Verse 3]
AmGAm
"Well, if you could have married the King's daughter dear,
GAm
I'm sure you are to blame,
CGEm
For I am married to a house carpenter,
AmGAm
And find him a nice young man."
[Verse 4]
AmGAm
"Oh, will you forsake your house carpenter
GAm
And go along with me?
AmCGEm
I'll take you to where the grass grows green,
AmGAmGAm
To the banks of the salt, salt sea."
[Verse 5]
AmGAm
"Well, if I should forsake my house carpenter
GAm
And go along with thee,
CGEm
What have you got to maintain me on
AmGAm
And keep me from poverty?"
[Verse 6]
AmGAm
"Six ships, six ships all out on the sea,
AmGAm
Seven more upon dry land,
AmCGEm
One hundred and ten all brave sailor men
AmGAm
Will be at your command."
[Verse 7]
AmGAm
She picked up her own wee babe,
AmGAm
Kisses gave him three,
CGEm
Said "Stay right here with my house carpenter
AmGAm
And keep him good company.
[Verse 8]
AmGAm
Then she putted on her rich attire,
AmGAm
So glorious to behold.
CGEm
And as she trod along her way,
AmGAm
She shone like the glittering gold.
[Verse 9]
AmGAm
Well, they'd not been gone but about two weeks,
AmGAm
I know it was not three.
AmCGEm
When this fair lady began to weep,
AmGAm
She wept most bitterly.
[Verse 10]
AmGAm
"Ah, why do you weep, my fair young maid,
AmGAm
Weep it for your golden store?
AmCGEm
Or do you weep for your house carpenter
AmGAm
Who never you shall see anymore?"
[Verse 11]
AmGAm
"I do not weep for my house carpenter
AmGAm
Or for any golden store.
AmCGEm
I do weep for my own wee babe,
AmGAm
Who never I shall see anymore."
[Verse 12]
AmGAm
Well, they'd not been gone but about three weeks,
AmGAm
I'm sure it was not four.
AmCGEm
Our gallant ship sprang a leak and sank,
AmGAm
Never to rise anymore.
[Verse 13]
AmGAm
One time around spun our gallant ship,
AmGAm
Two times around spun she,
AmCGEm
Three times around spun our gallant ship
AmGAm
And sank to the bottom of the sea.
[Verse 14]
AmGAm
"What hills, what hills are those, my love,
AmGAm
That rise so fair and high?"
AmCGEm
"Those are the hills of heaven, my love,
AmGAm
But not for you and I."
[Verse 15]
AmGAm
"And what hills, what hills are those, my love,
AmGAm
Those hills so dark and low?"
AmCGEm
"Those are the hills of hell, my love,
AmGAm
Where you and I must go."