Well met, well met, my own true love 
Well met, well met, cried he 
I've just returned from the salt, salt sea 
And it's all for the sake of thee 

I've come for the vows that you promised me 
To be my partner in life 
She said my vows you must forgive 
For now I'm a wedded wife 

Yes I have married a house carpenter 
To him I've born two fine sons 
For it's seven long years since you sailed to the west 
And I took you for dead and gone 

If I was to leave my husband dear 
And my two babies also 
Just what have you to take me to 
If with you I should now go 

I have seven ships out upon the sea 
And the eighth one that brought me to land 
With four and twenty bold mariners 
And music on every hand 

It was then she went to her two little babes 
She kissed them on cheek and on chin 
Saying fare thee well my sweet little ones 
I'll never see you again 

They had not sailed much more than a week 
I know that it was not three 
When altered grew his countinence 
And a raging came over the sea 

When they reached the shore again 
On the far side of the sea 
It was there she spied his cloven hoof 
And wept most bitterly 

Oh what is that mountain yon she cried 
So dreary with ice and with snow 
It is the mountain of hell he cried 
Where you and I now will go