Luyện nghe bài hát House Carpenter

(Traditional, Arr. Sara Watkins / Krauss)

"Well met, well met, said an old love.
"Well met, met, said he.
"I just returned from the salt, salt sea.
"And it's all for the of thee."
Come in, come in, my own love,
And a seat by me.
been three-fourths of a long, long year,
Since together, we been.

"I can't in and I can't sit down,
"For I've a moment's time.
"They say you're to a house carpenter,
"And heart will never be mine.

"I could married a King's daughter, fair,
"And she would married me,
"But I forsaken her crowns of gold,
"And it's all for the of thee."

"Now you forsake your carpenter,
"And go along me.
"I'll take you where the grass green.
"On the banks of the blue sea."

Then she picked up a little babe,
And kisses, she it three.
Saying "Stay right here, my little baby,
"And your pappa company."

They had not on the ship two weeks,
I'm it was not three,
Till his true love to weep and to mourn,
And she wept bitterly.

Sayin': "Are you for my silver and my gold."
"Are you weepin' for my store?
"Or are you weepin' for house carpenter,
"Whose you'll never see no more?"

"A curse, a to the sailor," she cried.
"A curse, a curse," she swore.
"You robbed me of my darlin' babe,
"That I shall see no more."

They had not been on the three weeks,
I'm it was not four,
When there a leak in the bottom of the ship,
And sank for to rise no more.