E|E|E|E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|||| House Carpenter [Unreleased, Self Portrait] – Bob Dylan
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Traditional, arr. Dylan
Outtake from "Self Portrait" sessions (1970)
From: "The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)"
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
The whole song consists of a G chord basically; the vocal notes are
sometimes doubled by the guitar, however, creating the G7, G/E etc. shapes.
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
G7 3-x-3-0-0-3
G/F x-x-3-0-0-3
G/E x-x-2-0-0-3
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[Intro]
| G |
[Verse 1]
G
Well met, well met, my own true love
GG7G
Well met, well met, cried she
G
I've just returned from the salt, salt sea
G [G]
And it's all for the sake of thee
[Interlude]
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| G | G/F | G/E | G |
[Verse 2]
G
I could have married a King's daughter there
GG7G
She would have married me
GG7G
Then I have refused that crown of gold
G
And it's all for the sake of thee
[Verse 3]
G
If you could have married a King's daughter there
G
I'm sure you are to blame
GG7G
For I am married to a house carpenter
G [G]
And he is a fine young man
[Interlude]
| G |
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[Verse 4]
GG7G
If you forsake your house carpenter
GG7G
And fly away with me
G
I'll take you to where the grass grows green
DCGD
On the banks of sweet Willie [?]
[Verse 5]
G
If I forsake my house carpenter
GG7G
And fly away with thee
GG7G
What have you got to maintain me upon
G
And keep me from slavery
[Verse 6]
GG7G
I've six ships sailing on the salt sea
GG7G
Sailing from dry land
GG7G
And a hundred and twenty jolly young men
GG7G
Shall be at your command
[Interlude]
| G |
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[Verse 7]
GG7G
She picked up her poor little babe
G
Her kisses were one, two, three
GG7G
And as she trod upon her way
GG7G
And shone like a glittering tree
[Verse 8]
GG7G
They had not been at sea two weeks
GG7G
I'm sure it was not three
G
When this poor maid began to cry
GG7G
And she wept most bitterly
[Interlude]
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[Verse 9]
GG7G
Oh do you weep for your gold, he said
GG7G
Your houses, your land or your store?
GG7G
Or do you weep for your house carpenter
GG7G
The one you’ll never see anymore
GG7G
The one you’ll never see anymore
[Verse 10]
GG7G
I do not weep for my gold, she said
GG7G
My houses, my land or my store
GG7G
But I do weep for my poor little babe
G
That I never shall see anymore
[Interlude]
| G | G7 | G | % |
[Verse 11]
GG7G
They had not been at sea three weeks
GG7G
I'm sure it was not four
GG7G
When in their ship there sprang a great leak
G
And she sank to rise no more
GG7G
No, she sank to rise no more
[Verse 12]
GG7G
Farewell farewell, my own true love
GG7G
Farewell farewell, cried she
GG7G
I could have deserted my house carpenter
G
And grave them [?] in the depths of the sea
GG7G
For a grave in the depths of the sea.
[Interlude]
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[Verse 13]
(= verse 1)
GG7
Well met, well met, my own true love
GG7G
Well met, well met, cried she
G
I've just returned from the salt, salt sea
G [break] G
And it's all for the sake of thee