Capo 3rd fret for guitar
From the album Joan Baez in Concert
[Intro]
Am G Am
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
Am G Am
I could have married the King's daughter dear
Am G Am
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
[Verse 3]
Am G Am
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
[Verse 4]
Am G Am
Oh will you forsake your house carpenter
G Am
And go along with me
Am C G Em
I'll take you to where the grass grows green
Am G Am G Am
To the banks of the salt salt sea
[Verse 5]
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
Am G Am
And keep me from poverty
[Verse 6]
Am G Am
Six ships six ships all out on the sea
Am G Am
Seven more upon dry land
Am C G Em
One hundred and ten all brave sailor men
Am G Am
Will be at your command
[Verse 7]
Am G Am
She picked up her own wee babe
Am G Am
Kisses gave him three
C G Em
Said Stay right here with my house carpenter
Am G Am
And keep him good company
[Verse 8]
Am G Am
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
[Verse 9]
Am G Am
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
[Verse 10]
Am G Am
Ah why do you weep my fair young maid
Am G Am
Weep it for your golden store
Am C G Em
Or do you weep for your house carpenter
Am G Am
Who never you shall see anymore
[Verse 11]
Am G Am
I do not weep for my house carpenter
Am G Am
Or for any golden store
Am C G Em
I do weep for my own wee babe
Am G Am
Who never I shall see anymore
[Verse 12]
Am G Am
Well they'd not been gone but about three weeks
Am G Am
I'm sure it was not four
Am C G Em
Our gallant ship sprang a leak and sank
Am G Am
Never to rise anymore
[Verse 13]
Am G Am
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
Am G Am
And sank to the bottom of the sea
[Verse 14]
Am G Am
What hills what hills are those my love
Am G Am
That rise so fair and high
Am C G Em
Those are the hills of heaven my love
Am G Am
But not for you and I
[Verse 15]
Am G Am
And what hills what hills are those my love
Am G Am
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