{"id":4958,"date":"2018-03-24T18:16:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T22:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=4958"},"modified":"2018-03-24T19:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T23:00:46","slug":"house-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=4958","title":{"rendered":"House Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A.L. Lloyd was known for this song; so, too, was Joan Baez, Ewan MacColl, and others… But amongst our sea music peers, this is a “Cliff song”.\u00a0 It dates to the 17th century, s among the songs collected by Samuel Pepys. and appears in the folk tradition in myriad names such as “A Warning For Married Women”, “The Fair Maid of Bristol”, “The Demon Lover”, and even “The Distressed Ship’s Carpenter”… With as many melodies to sing them to!\u00a0 It tells the tale of a woman who had loved a sailor but wound up marrying a carpenter (house or ship), later to be approached by either the former lover (sailor) or the devil in the form of that former lover… In either case, he woos her away with the promise of a higher standard of living and she leaves even her infant behind… But the story turns sour and our lady finds herself facing death and thence hell.<\/p>\n

Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n

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Melody as sung by Cliff Haslam.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Well met, well met, my own true love
\nWell met, well met”, cried he
\n“I’ve just returned from the salt, salt sea
\nAll for the love of thee”<\/p>\n

I could have married the king’s daughter dear
\nShe would have married me
\nBut I have forsaken her crowns of gold
\nAll for the love of thee<\/p>\n

Well, if you could have married the king’s daughter dear
\nI’m sure you are to blame
\nFor I am married to a house carpenter
\nAnd find him a nice young man<\/p>\n

Oh, will you forsake your house carpenter
\nAnd go along with me?
\nI’ll take you to where the grass grows green
\nTo the banks of the salt, salt sea<\/p>\n

Well, if I should forsake my house carpenter
\nAnd go along with thee
\nWhat have you got to maintain me on
\nAnd keep me from poverty?<\/p>\n

Six ships, six ships all out on the sea
\nSeven more upon dry land
\nOne hundred and ten all brave sailor men
\nWill be at your command<\/p>\n

She picked up her own wee babe
\nKisses gave him three
\nSaid, “Stay right here with my house carpenter
\nAnd keep him good company”<\/p>\n

Then she put on her rich attire
\nSo glorious to behold
\nAnd as she trod along her way
\nShe shown like the glittering gold<\/p>\n

Well, they’d not been gone but about two weeks
\nI know it was not three
\nWhen this fair lady began to weep
\nShe wept most bitterly<\/p>\n

Ah, why do you weep, my fair young maid
\nWeep it for your golden store?
\nOr do you weep for your house carpenter
\nWho never you shall see anymore?<\/p>\n

I do not weep for my house carpenter
\nOr for any golden store
\nI do weep for my own wee babe
\nWho never I shall see anymore<\/p>\n

Well, they’d not been gone but about three weeks
\nI’m sure it was not four
\nOur gallant ship sprang a leak and sank
\nNever to rise anymore<\/p>\n

One time around spun our gallant ship
\nTwo times around spun she
\nThree times around spun our gallant ship
\nAnd sank to the bottom of the sea<\/p>\n

What hills, what hills are those, my love
\nThat rise so fair and high?
\nThose are the hills of heaven, my love
\nBut not for you and I<\/p>\n

And what hills, what hills are those, my love
\nThose hills so dark and low?
\nThose are the hills of hell, my love
\nWhere you and I must go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A.L. Lloyd was known for this song; so, too, was Joan Baez, Ewan MacColl, and others… But amongst our sea music peers, this is a “Cliff song”.\u00a0 It dates to the 17th century, s among the songs collected by Samuel Pepys. and appears in the folk tradition in myriad names such as “A Warning For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4958","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4958\/revisions\/4964"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}