House Carpenter- Carter (KY) 1917 Sharp O
[My title. Single stanza with music from: English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, II; collected by Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil J. Sharp, ed. Karpeles, published 1932 (notes follow). Sharp's No. 29. is titled, The Daemon Lover. I've changed it to the more appropriate title- House Carpenter.
Sharp did not provide the text for Carter's version and many of the versions he collected because he probably felt that the text was not complete or significantly different than the other versions with text provided.
R. Matteson 2013]
Notes: No. 29. The Daemon Lover.
Texts without tunes:—Child, No. 243.
Texts with tunes:—Journal of the Folk-Song Society, iii., 84. Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Appendix xv., tune 1. Songs of the West, 2nd ed., No. 76. American variants: —Journal of American Folk-Lore, xviii., 207; xix., 295; xx., 257; xxvi., 360; xxv., 274 (with tune). Broadside by H. De Marsan, New York. Musical Quarterly, January, 1916, p. 18.
O. [House Carpenter]- Sung by Mrs. FRANCIS CARTER at Proctor, Ky., Sept. 7, 1917; Sharp O. Hexatonic (no 3rd).
Well met, well met, my own true love,
Well met, well met, said he,
For I've just returned from the old salt sea,
And it's all for the sake of thee.