House Carpenter - Chris Thile | Live from Here

[@KeelyBurnMusic]

Between this and the rendition of Silver Dagger from several weeks ago, I'm starting to think I would love to see an entire concert where Chris Thile just plays old folk songs.

[@Stickykeys2010]

"Well met, well met, said an old true love. Well met, well met, said he. I just returned from the salt, salt sea. And it's all for the love of thee. Come in, come in, my own true love and have a seat by me. It's been three-fourths of a long, long year since together we have been. I can't come in and I can't sit down , for I've only a moment's time. They say you're married to a house carpenter and your heart will never be mine. I could've married the king's daughter fair. And she would have married me. But I have forsaken her crowns of gold, and it's all for the love of thee. Now will you forsake your house carpenter, and go along with me? I'll take you where the grass grows green on the banks of the deep blue sea. Then she picked her darling little babe and kisses she gave him three. Saying stay right here my darling little babe, and keep your papa company. They had not been on the ship two weeks. I'm sure it was not three. 'Till his true love began to weep and to mourn and she wept most bitterly. Saying are you weeping for my silver or my gold? Saying are you weeping for my store? Or are you weeping for your house carpenter whose face you'll never see no more? A curse, a curse to the sailor she cried, a curse, a curse she swore. You robbed me of my darling little babe. That I shall never see no more. They had not been on the ship three weeks, I'm sure it was not four. When there came a leak in the bottom of the ship and sank them for to rise no more."

[@d_l2392]

Capo 2nd fret, then: Em - D - Em - Em Em - D - Em - Em C - C - D - Bm C - D - Em - Em

[@colindowell6427]

That gentleman can play (and sing)!

[@heinerkaiser8673]

Chris Thile at his very best!

[@KilianSchindler]

a master class in improvisation

[@GreatLakesFeatherCo]

Genius and master of his craft

[@xyz8512]

Wow

[@timothyvanscoy6953]

I was pretty sure at about 7:35 he was going to go into Another New World

[@milo8425]

Jam traditional folk? How does he leave out “And what hills, what hills are those, my love, those hills so dark and low?” “Those are the hills of hell, my love, where you and I must go.” ?

[@L00MER]

JFC, Chris.