I do not own any rights to this song or image. Lyrics: 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 said you're married to a house carpenter and your heart will never be mine. I could've married the king's daughter fair. And she would have 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 alnog with me? I'll take you where the grass grows green on the banks of the deep blue sea. Then she picked her darling little babe and kisses she gave him 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. 'Till his true love began to weep and to mourn and she wept most bitterly. Saying are you weeping for my silver or 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 or your gold. I am not weeping for your store. 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 ...