Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Water Is Wide, artist - The King's Singers. Album song Simple Gifts, in the genre Мировая классика
Date of issue: 27.04.2008
Record label: Signum
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 |