The Water Is Wide 1

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