Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
Well met, well met cried he.
I've just returned from the salt salt sea
Verse 2
And it's all for the love of thee.
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Come in, come in my own true love,
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And have a seat with me,
long year
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Since together we have been.
Verse 3
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I can't come in and I can't sit down
I haven't but a moment's time.
But I hear you're married
to the house carpenter
So your love will never be mine.
Verse 4
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And I could've married with the
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So free she was with me.
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And it's all for the love of thee.
Verse 5
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If you would have married with
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I'm sure you are to blame.
And it's now I've married to the
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And I'm sure he's a fine young man.
Verse 6
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Well will you forsake your house carpenter
And come away with me?
I'll take you down to where
the grass grows green,
Verse 7
Down by the sweet dundee.
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(So she picked up her tine wee babe
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And kisses gave it three,
sweet dear
Interlude 1
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Verse 8
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Well they hadn't been on ship
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I'm sure it was not 3,
When she espied his cloven foot
And began to weep most bitterly.)
Verse 9
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Or are you weeping for your store,
Or are you weeping for your
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Whose face you'll never see no more?
Verse 10
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No I'm not weeping for
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I'm not weeping for my store,
It's now I'm weeping for my soul,
so dear,
Whose purity I'll never
Verse 11
for about 3 weeks,
I'm sure it was not 4,
When he stomped his foot and
down she sank,
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And sank to arise no more.)
Verse 12
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Well met, well met my own true love love,
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Well met, well met cried he.
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I've just returned to the salt salt sea
Outro 1
And it's all for the love of thee.
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