Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Water Is Wide, artist - Niamh Parsons. Date of issue: 16.03.2014
Song language: English
The Water Is Wide |
| The water is wide, I cannot get over |
| 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 is and she sails the sea |
| She’s loaded deep as deep can be |
| But not so deep as the love I’m in |
| I know not if I sink or swim |
| I leaned my back against an oak |
| Thinking it was a trusty tree |
| But first it bent and then it broke |
| So did my love prove false to me |
| I reached my finger into some soft bush |
| Thinking the fairest flower to find |
| I pricked my finger to the bone |
| And left the fairest flower behind |
| Oh, love be handsome and love be kind |
| Gay as a jewel when first it is new |
| But love grows old and waxes cold |
| And fades away like the morning dew |
| Must I go bound while you go free |
| Must I love a man who doesn’t love me |
| Must I be born with so little art |
| As to love a man who’ll break my heart |
| When cockle shells turn silver bells |
| Then will my love come back to me |
| When roses bloom in winter’s gloom |
| Then will my love return to me |