John - sorry didn't notice you'd the version you'd already posted was Lena Bourne Fish one when I suggested I post it! Here's the tune for completeness anyway.

Mick

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X:1
T:The Ship Carpenter
B:Warner: Traditional American Folk Songs pp137-138, 1984
S:Collected by the Warners from Lena Bourne Fish, 1941
O:East Jeffrey, New Hampshire, USA
M:C
L:1/4
K:G
D/|G> D G A|c/c/(B/A/) G
w:"Well met, well met, my pret-ty fair_ maid."
D/D/|G/G/ A B (A/G/)|d2 z
w:"Not so ve-ry well met," said_ she.
(B/c/)|d d c/B/A/G/|c B/A/ (F/D/)
w:"For_ I am mar-ried to a ship car-pen-ter,_
F/G/|A/B/(A/F/) D (E/F/)|D2 z|]
w:And a ve-ry fine_ man is_ he."