The Water Is Wide Lyrics - Gentle On My Mind 1970 - John Hartford

The water is wide, I cannot cross over, 

And neither have I wings to fly, 

Give me a boat that can carry two, 

And both shall row, my love and I. 

A ship there was, and she sails the sea, 

She's loaded deep as deep can be, 

But not so deep as the love I'm in, 

And I know not how, I sink or swim. 

I leaned my back up against some young oak, 

Thinking he was a trusty tree, 

But first he bended and then he broke, 

And thus did my false love to me. 

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I put my hand into some soft bush, 

Thinking the sweetest flower to find. 

I pricked my finger to the bone, 

And left the sweetest flower alone. 

Oh, love is handsome, love is fine, 

Gay as a jewel, when first it is new, 

But love grows old, and waxes cold, 

And fades away, like summer dew. 

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The seagulls wheel, they turn and dive, 

The mountain stands beside the sea. 

This world we know turns round and round, 

And all for them - and you and me.