[ti:The Water Is Wide] [ar:Niamh Parsons] [al:Blackbirds & Thrushes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.16]The Water Is Wide - Niamh Parsons [00:17.34]The water is wide I can't swim [00:26.38]And neither have I wings to fly [00:35.38]Give me a boat that can carry two [00:44.51]And both shall row my love and I [00:54.33]There is a ship and she sails the sea [01:02.66]She's sailed so deep as deep can be [01:11.56]But not so deep as the love I'm in [01:20.28]I know not how to sink or swim [01:29.98]And he my love [01:33.73]And that's to know [01:38.28]Thinking it was the strongest steam [01:47.04]But first it bent and then it broke [01:55.49]And that's the way love treating me [02:05.13]For love is handsome and love is blind [02:13.34]And love as a jewel when first it's new [02:22.13]But love grows old and waxes cold [02:30.31]And fades away like the morning dew [03:14.72]Inside see to as far and go [03:23.61]And muscle grow and every dream [03:32.32]When cockle shells make Chrismas bells [03:40.98]Then what I will my love for me [03:50.34]The water is wide I can't swim over [03:58.80]And neither have I wings to fly [04:07.59]Built me a boat that can carry two [04:16.04]And both shall row my love and I [04:25.18]And both shall row my love and I