Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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G
Gm
Well met, well met,
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G
Gm
And very well met, said he,
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Am
G
And it's all for the sake of thee.
Am
G
I could have married a
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A
Am
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G
and it's all for the sake of thee.
Am
G
If you could have married a
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D
queen's daughter,
For me, young man,
you have came too late,
for I've married a house carpenter.
Am
G
Am
G
D
If you will leave your house carpenter
I will take you down where the
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Am
on the banks of the River Dee
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A
G
D
if I were to leave my house carpenter
What have you got to maintain a wife
Am
G
Am
G
or keep her from slavery?
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D
I have seven ships at sea
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Am
G
Am
G
an d they all will wait on thee.
Am
saying, stay at home, my two pretty babes,
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Am
and bear your own father com pany.
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Am
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D
She had not sailed on sea two weeks,
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D
G
I'm sure not sailed on three,
till here she sat in her new
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D
Oh, do you weep for gold, he said,
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D
or do you weep for fear?
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G
Or do you weep for your house,
carpenter,
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that you left when you came here?
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I do not weep for gold, she said.
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D
Nor do I weep for fear,
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But I do weep for my two pretty babes
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That I left when I came here.
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I'm sure not sailed on four,
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A
Till overboard her fair body she threw,
Her curse did attend a sea
sailor's life,
Her curse did attend a sailor's life,
For the robbing of the house carpenter,
And stealing away his wife.
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