"well met, well met
  And I know true love
  Well met, well met", said he
  "I'm just returning from the salt, salt sea
  And it's all for the love of thee"
  
  "come in, come in
  My own true love
  And have a seat with me
  It's been three-fourths
  Of a long, long 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 shall never be mine"
  
  "well I could have married
  The king's daughter fair
  She would have married me
  But I forsaked upon
  Her crowns of gold
  And it's all for the love of thee"
  
  "now will you forsake on
  Your house carpenter
  And go along with me?
  I'll take you where
  The grass grows green
  On the banks of the bitter reeds"
  
  She pick'd up her wee little babe
  And kisses, gave it three saying,
  "stay right here my darling little one
  Keep your papa company"
  
  Now they had not been
  On the ship two weeks
  I swear it was not three
  When his true love began
  To weep and moan
  And she wept most bitterly
  
  "are you weeping
  For my silver and gold
  Are you weeping for my store or are
  You weeping for that house carpenter
  That you ne'er shall see no more?"
  
  
  "a curse on the sailor she swore
  A curse, a curse she swore
  You robbed me of my sweet little babe
  That I never shall see no more!"
  
  Well, they had not been
  On the ship three weeks
  I swear it was not four
  Until there came a leak in the ship
  And she sank
  To rise no more...