Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Water Is Wide, artist - John Hartford. Album song Frustrated Bird, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 07.08.2019
Record label: 3 AMIGOS
Song language: English
The Water Is Wide |
The water is wide, I cannot 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 |
A ship there was, and she sails the sea |
She’s loaded deep as deep can be |
But not so deep as the love I’m in |
And I know not how, I sink or swim |
I leaned my back up against some young oak |
Thinking he was a trusty tree |
But first he bended and then he broke |
And thus did my false love to me |
I put my hand into some soft bush |
Thinking the sweetest flower to find |
I pricked my finger to the bone |
And left the sweetest flower alone |
Oh, love is handsome, love is fine |
Gay as a jewel, when first it is new |
But love grows old, and waxes cold |
And fades away, like summer dew |
The seagulls wheel, they turn and dive |
The mountain stands beside the sea |
This world we know turns round and round |
And all for them — and you and me |