Song | The Water Is Wide |
Artist | Karla Bonoff |
Album | The Best Of Karla Bonoff: All My Life |
The water is wide | |
I cannot swim ore | |
and neither have I | |
the wings to fly | |
give me a boat | |
that can carry two | |
and we both shall row | |
my true love and I | |
A ship there is | |
and she sails the seas | |
she's laden deep | |
as deep can be | |
but not so deep | |
as the love I'm in | |
and I know not if | |
i sink or swim | |
I leaned my back | |
against a young oak | |
thinkin he was | |
a trusty tree | |
but first he bended | |
and then he broke | |
thus did my love | |
prove false to me | |
Oh love is handsome | |
and love is kind | |
bright as a jewl | |
when first it's new | |
but love grows old | |
and waxes cold | |
and fades away | |
like the morning dew | |
and fades away | |
like the morning dew |