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by Roger Mcguinn




Roger McGuinn        The Water Is Wide           traditional

                                        

The water is wide I can not cross over
                          
And neither have I wings to fly
                                      
But  build me a boat  that can carry two
                                 
And both shall roam my love and I
                                
A ship there is and she sails the sea
                           
Sailing as deep as  deep can be
                                  
But not so deep as the love I am in
                                    
I know not how I sink or swim
                                  
I leaned my back against some young oak
                             
Thinking that he was a trusty tree
                              
But first he bent and then he broke
                            
And thus did my false love and me

      From the "Roger McGuinn"  LP  Columbia Records 1973
               From the "Roger McGuinn"  LP  Columbia Records 1973