Well Met- Small (VA) 1950 Karpeles Bronson 129.
[From LC/AFS, rec. No. 10,004(A2) from Bronson TTCB, III; 1966, no. 129. Recorded on Karpeles return trip to the Appalachians in 1950. Dol Small was an informant for Sharp/Karpeles in EFSSA.
R. Matteson 2013]
"Well Met" or "The Daemon Lover"- Sung by Mr. Dol Small, Nellysford, Va., September 13, 1950. Collected by Maud Karpeles and Sidney Robertson Cowell. m I/Ly
1. Well met, well met my old true love,
Well met, well met says she.
I'm just returning from the salt salt sea,
And it's all for the sake of thee.
I'm just returning from the salt salt sea,
And it's all for the sake of thee.
2. I could have married a king's daughter,
And she would have married me.
But I did slight the crowns of gold
And it's all for the sake of thee.
But I did slight the crowns of gold
And it's all for the sake of thee.
3. If you could have married a king's daughter,
I'm sure you are to blame,
For I have married a house carpenter
And they say he's a nice young man.
For I have married a house carpenter
And they say he's a nice young man.
4. Won't you forsake your house carpenter,
And go along with me?
I'll take you where the grass grows green,
0n the banks of sweet Willie.
I'll take you where the grass grows green,
On the banks of sweet Willie.
5. The ship had nor been gone yet quite two weeks,
I'm sure it was not three,
Before this lady she began to weep,
And she wept most bitterly,
Before this lady she began to weep,
And she wept most bitterly.
6. Are you weeping for your house carpenter,
Or are you weeping for your store?
Or are you weeping for your sweet little babes
Whose face you'll see no more?
Or are you weeping for your sweet little babes
Whose face you'll see no more?
7. I'm not a-weeping for my house carpenter,
Neither am I weeping for my store,
But I am a-weeping for my sweet little babes
Whose face I'll see no more.
But I am a-weeping for my sweet little babes
Whose face I'll see no more.
8. Now this is a warning to all young men
Who try to get themself a wife,
They'll take you from your house carpenter,
And they'll cause you to lose your life,
They'll take you from your house carpenter
And they'll cause you to lose your life.