If You Will Leave Your House Carpenter- Williams (IO) c.1865; Bronson 75
[From Bronson's TTCB III, 1966, No. 75.
R. Matteson 2013]
"If you will leave your house carpenter"- Sung by Mrs. John Williams (nee Violet Selena Hawkins), Iowa City, Iowa, learned in 1865-70 in Penn Township, Johnson County, Iowa, probably from Mrs. Tim Tierney. Text noted by her son Charles Williams on September 16, 1921. Tune recorded by Mrs. Flora Brennan' February 5, 1922.
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1. "If you will leave your house carpenter
And go away with me,
I'll take you where the sweet winds blow
On the banks of sweet Italy."
2. . . . .
. . . .
This gallant lady had cause for to weep,
And she wept most bitterly.
3. "It is not for your gold I weep,
It is not for your store,
But O it is for the darling sweet babe,
That I left on yonder shore."