The Water Is Wide - Niamh Parsons

The water is wide I can't swim

And neither have I wings to fly

Give me a boat that can carry two

And both shall row my love and I

There is a ship and she sails the sea

She's sailed so deep as deep can be

But not so deep as the love I'm in

I know not how to sink or swim

And he my love

And that's to know

Thinking it was the strongest steam

But first it bent and then it broke

And that's the way love treating me

For love is handsome and love is blind

And love as a jewel when first it's new

But love grows old and waxes cold

And fades away like the morning dew

Inside see to as far and go

And muscle grow and every dream

When cockle shells make Chrismas bells

Then what I will my love for me

The water is wide I can't swim over

And neither have I wings to fly

Built me a boat that can carry two

And both shall row my love and I

And both shall row my love and I