The Water Is Wide 1

by British folk song Joan Baez

THE WATER IS WIDE
British folk song
Joan Baez
Key: F

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The wa-ter is wide, I can-not get o’er  
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Neith-er have I wings to fly 
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Give me a boat that can car-ry two 
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And both shall cross, 
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my true love and I 

I leaned my back against an oak  
Thinking it was a mighty tree  
But first it bent and then it broke  
So did my love prove false to me  

I put my hand to some soft bush  
Thinking the sweetest flower to find  
I pricked my finger to the bone  
And left the sweetestest flower behind  

Oh love is handsome and love is kind  
Gay as a jewel when first it is new  
But love grows old and waxes cold  
And fades away like the morning dew