The Water Is Wide - Luka Bloom

The water is wide, I can’t swim over

Neither have I wings to fly

Build me a boat that can carry two

And both shall row, my love and I There is a ship, it sails on the sea

Out on the deep as deep can be But not as deep as the love I’m in And on that boat I’ll sink or swim

I leaned my back up against that boat

Thinking it was a trusty tree

But first it bent and then it broke

Just like my own false love to me Oh love is gentle, and love is kind

Gay as a jewel, when first it’s new

When love grows old, still it carries on But it sometimes fades like the morning dew

The water is wide, I can’t swim over

And neither have I wings to fly

Give me a boat that can carry two

And both shall row, my love and I And both shall row, my love and I