Karla Bonoff - The Water Is Wide

The water is wide

I can't cross over

And neither have
I wings to fly

Give me a boat
that can carry two
And both shall row

my love and I

Oh love is gentle
and love is kind

The sweetest flower
when first it's new
But love grows old
and waxes cold

And fades away

like morning dew

There is a ship

and she sails to sea

She's loaded deep
as deep can be
But not as deep
as the love I'm in

I know not how

I sink or swim
The water is wide
I can't cross over
And neither have
I wings to fly
Give me a boat
that can carry two
And both shall row

my love and I
And both shall row

my love and I

The water is wide

I can't cross over

And neither have
I wings to fly

Give me a boat
that can carry two
And both shall row

my love and I

Oh love is gentle
and love is kind

The sweetest flower
when first it's new
But love grows old
and waxes cold

And fades away

like morning dew

There is a ship

and she sails to sea

She's loaded deep
as deep can be
But not as deep
as the love I'm in

I know not how

I sink or swim
The water is wide
I can't cross over
And neither have
I wings to fly
Give me a boat
that can carry two
And both shall row

my love and I
And both shall row

my love and I

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