The Water Is Wide

The Water Is Wide - Carolyn Hester/Bob Dylan

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

There's a ship and she sails the sea

She's loaded deep as deep can be

But not so deep

As the love I'm in

I know not how

I sink or swim

I leaned my back

Against some young oak

Thinkin' that he was

A trusty tree

But first he bended

And then he broke

And thus did my

False love to me

Oh love is handsome

And love is kind

Gay as a jewl

When first it's new

But love grows old

And waxes cold

And fades away

Like summer dew

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