The House Carpenter- Short (MO) 1933 Randolph I
[From Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs, Vol. 1, 1946. Randolph gives the first stanza only, saying it agrees with version E.
R. Matteson 2013]
The House Carpenter- Sung by Leonard Short (Galena, MO) July 2, 1933. Randolph I
"We have met, we have met, my own true love,
We have met once more, I see;
I've just come clean across the salt-water sea,
An' it's all for the sake of thee."