Demon Lover Lyrics - Singles - Tim O'brien

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