{"id":7084,"date":"2007-02-01T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7084"},"modified":"2008-04-10T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:00:03","slug":"the-house-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7084","title":{"rendered":"The House Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/House_Carpenter.jpg\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/House_Carpenter.mp3\">The House Carpenter<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The House Carpenter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a popular name for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemplator.com\/history\/epedia.html#child\">Child Ballad<\/a> No. 243. The official names are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153James Harris,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Daemon Lover.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This ballad may have been partially inspired by an ancient myth that was a catalyst for Richard Wagner&#8217;s operatic masterpiece, &#8220;The Flying Dutchman.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[Em] &#8220;Well met, well met, my own true love,<br \/>\nwell met, well met,&#8221; cried he.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve just returned from the salt, salt sea<br \/>\n[D] all for the love of [Em] thee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could have married the King&#8217;s daughter dear,<br \/>\nshe would have married me.<br \/>\nBut I have forsaken her crowns of gold<br \/>\nall for the love of thee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, if you could have married the King&#8217;s daughter dear,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure you are to blame,<br \/>\nFor I am married to a house carpenter,<br \/>\nand find him a nice young man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, will you forsake your house carpenter<br \/>\nand go along with me?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll take you to where the grass grows green,<br \/>\nto the banks of the salt, salt sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, if I should forsake my house carpenter<br \/>\nand go along with thee,<br \/>\nWhat have you got to maintain me on<br \/>\nand keep me from poverty?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Six ships, six ships all out on the sea,<br \/>\nseven more upon dry land,<br \/>\nOne hundred and ten all brave sailor men<br \/>\nwill be at your command.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She picked up her own wee babe,<br \/>\nkisses gave him three,<br \/>\nSaid &#8220;Stay right here with my house carpenter<br \/>\nand keep him good company.<\/p>\n<p>Then she putted on her rich attire,<br \/>\nso glorious to behold.<br \/>\nAnd as she trod along her way,<br \/>\nshe shown like the glittering gold.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they&#8217;d not been gone but about two weeks,<br \/>\nI know it was not three.<br \/>\nWhen this fair lady began to weep,<br \/>\nshe wept most bitterly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not weep for my house carpenter<br \/>\nor for any golden store.<br \/>\nI do weep for my own wee babe,<br \/>\nwho never I shall see anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, they&#8217;d not been gone but about three weeks,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure it was not four.<br \/>\nOur gallant ship sprang a leak and sank,<br \/>\nnever to rise anymore.<\/p>\n<p>One time around spun our gallant ship,<br \/>\ntwo times around spun she,<br \/>\nThree times around spun our gallant ship<br \/>\nand sank to the bottom of the sea.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The House Carpenter \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The House Carpenter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a popular name for Child Ballad No. 243. The official names are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153James Harris,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Daemon Lover.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This ballad may have been partially inspired by an ancient myth that was a catalyst for Richard Wagner&#8217;s operatic masterpiece, &#8220;The Flying Dutchman.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The House Carpenter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-love","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8696,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions\/8696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}