| We’ve met, we’ve met my old true love
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| We’ve met, we’ve met said he
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| I’ve just returned from the salt salt sea
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| And it’s all for the love of thee
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| Come in, come in my old true love
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| And have a seat with me
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| It’s been three fourths of a long long year
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| Since together we have been
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| No, I can’t come in, I can’t sit down
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| I have but a moment’s time
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| They say you are married to a house carpenter
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| And your heart will never be mine
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| I could have married the King’s daughter fair
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| And she would have married me
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| But I’ve forsaken her crown of gold
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| And it’s all for the love of thee
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| Will you forsake your house carpenter
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| And come along with me
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| I’ll take you where the grass grows green
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| On the banks of Ittery
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| Then she picked up her darling little babe
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| And kisses she gave it thee
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| Saying stay right here my darling little babe
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| And keep your papa company
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| They had not been on the ship two weeks
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| I’m sure it was not three
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| Till his true love began to weep and mourn
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| And she wept most bitterly
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| Oh is it for your silver you weep
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| Oh is it for your store
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| Or is it for that house carpenter
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| Whose face you’ll never see anymore?
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| A curse, a curse to the sailor she cried
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| A curse, a curse she swore
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| You’ve robbed me of my darling little babe
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| Whose face I’ll never see anymore
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| They had not been on the ship three weeks
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| I’m sure it was not four
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| They sprang a leak in the bottom of the ship
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| And it sunk for to rise no more |