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Well met well met my own true love
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well met well met cried he
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I've just returned from the salt salt sea
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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
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But I have forsaken her crowns of gold
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all for the love of thee
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Well if you could have married the King's daughter dear
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I'm sure you are to blame
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For I am married to a house carpenter
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and find him a nice young man
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Oh will you forsake your house carpenter
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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
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Well if I should forsake my house carpenter
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and go along with thee
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What have you got to maintain me on
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and keep me from poverty
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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
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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
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so glorious to behold
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And as she trod along her way
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she shown like the glittering gold
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Well they'd not been gone but about two weeks
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I know it was not three
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When this fair lady began to weep
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she wept most bitterly
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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
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who never I shall see anymore
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Well they'd not been gone but about three weeks
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I'm sure it was not four
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Our gallant ship sprang a leak and sank
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never to rise anymore
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One time around spun our gallant ship
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two times around spun she
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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
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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
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Those are the hills of hell my love
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where you and I must go