The Boatman Lyrics - Levellers

If I could choose the life I please 

Then I would be a boatman 

On the canals and the rivers free 

No hasty words are spoken 

My only law is the river breeze 

That takes me to the open seas 

If I could choose the life I please 

Then, I would be a boatman 

If I could choose the life I please 

Then I would be a rower 

And if the road was not for me 

Then, I would choose another 

Cross mountains and the valleys deep 

Where I would take these weary feet 

If I could choose the life I please 

Then, I would be a rower 

But these things they're so hard for me 

I cannot choose my own destiny 

And all the things that I want to see 

Are so unclean 

Well, I wish I could choose the life I please 

But I am not a free man 

Others rule my destiny 

But my will's never broken 

I know someday, I will be 

Everything that I dreamed, I'd be 

And when I live the life I please 

Then, I will be a freeman 

I know someday, I will be 

Everything that I dreamed, I'd be 

And when I live the life I please 

Then, I will be a freeman 

And when I live the life I please 

Then, I will be a freeman