Tim O'brien - Demon Lover lyrics

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