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The water is wide

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The water is wide song lyrics

The water is wide, I cannot get oer 
                                    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


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