The House Carpenter

==General Information==
Performer: Clarence Ashley 
Instrumentation: Banjo
Date of recording: 1930
Record label: Columbia
Serial #:15654D(WI94982)
==Summary==
(As summarized by Harry Smith, The Anthology Of American Folk Music)
"WIFE AND MOTHER FOLLOWS CARPENTER TO SEA; MOURNS BABE AS SHIP GOES DOWN" (2)
==Information On This Song==
This song is a rendition of Child Ballad #243 (James Harris-The Daemon Lover), it is most like version "B" of said ballad. There is also a Broadside version of this ballad from 1685 (later reprinted in c. 1711-1732) entitled "A Warning for Married Women.Being an Example of Mrs. Jane Reynolds (a weſt-country-Woman) born neer Plimouth who having plighted her troth to a Seaman, was afterwards married to a Carpenter, and at laſt carried away by a Spirit, the manner how ſhall presently be recited." 
==Albums Featuring This Song==
* The Anthology Of American Folk Music
* Songcatcher II
* Greenback Dollar (1929-1933)
* Before The Blues, Vol. 3
* Old Time Music at Newport
==Related Articles==
* List Of Ballad Renditions
* Tragic Love Ballads
==External Links==
* Youtube video featuring this song
* 1685 broadside from University of California-Santa Barbara
* c. 1711 broadside from The Bodleian Library
Category:Folk Songs Category:The Anthology Of American Folk Music Category:Ballads