All mandolin breaks in the song follow the same
chords as verse.
Well Met, Well Met, Said an old true love.
Well Met, Well Met, Said He
I just returned 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 by me
It's been three-fourths of a long, long year since together
we have been
I can't come in and I can't sit down,
for I've only a moment's time.
They say you're married to a house capenter and your heart
will never be mine
I could've married the king's daughter fair
And she would've married me.
But I have forsaken her crowns of gold, and it's all for
the love of thee
Now will you forsake your house carpenter,
And go along with me?
I'll take you wher the grass grows green on the banks of the
deep blue sea.
Then she picked up her darling little babe
and kisses she gave it three.
Saying stay right here you darling little babe, and keep
your papa company.
They had not been on the ship two weeks
I'm sure it was not three.
'Til this true love began to weep and to mourn and she wept
most bitterly.
Saying are you weeping for my silver and my gold?
Saying are you weeping for my store?
Or are you weeping for your house carpenter, whose face
you'll never see no more?
I am not weeping for your silver and your gold.
I am not weeping for your store.
No, I am weeping for my darling little babe whose face i'll
never see no more
A curse, a curse to the sailor she cried.
A curse, A Curse she swore.
You robbed me of my darling little babe. That I shall never
see no more.
They had not been on the ship three weeks.
I'm sure is was not four.
When there came a leak in the bottem of the ship and sank
the for to rise no more.