The Water Is Wide Lyrics

O' the water is deep

I can't swim o'er

And neither have I wings to fly

Build me a boat that can carry two

And both shall row my love and I

There is a ship that sails the seas

She sails so deep as deep can be

But not so deep as the love I'm in

I know not how I'll sink or swim

I leant my back against an oak

Thinking it was the strongest tree
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But first it bent and then it broke

And that's the way love treated me

Oh love is handsome and love is kind

Gay as a jewel when first it's new

But as love grows old then twice as cold

And fades away like morning dew

O' the water is deep

I can't swim o'er

And neither have I wings to fly

Build me a boat that can carry two

Both shall row my love and I