The Water Is Wide Lyrics

The song The Water Is Wide is performed by Joan Baez in the album named Farewell, Angelina in the year 2002 .



The water is wide, I cannot get o'er
Neither have I wings to fly.
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row my true love and I

I lean'd my back against an oak,
Thinking it was a trusting tree.
But first it bent and then it broke,
So did my love prove false to me.

I put my hand in some soft bush
Thinking the sweetest flow'r to find.
I prick'd my finger to the bone
And left the sweetest flow'r behind.

But love is gentle and love is kind,
the sweetest flower when first it's new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew.



Joan Baez - Farewell, Angelina

Jul 2002

  1. Farewell, Angelina
  2. Daddy, You Been On My Mind
  3. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
  4. The Wild Mountain Thyme
  5. Ranger's Command
  6. Colours
  7. Satisfied Mind
  8. The River In The Pines
  9. Pauvre Ruteboeuf
  10. Sagt Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind
  11. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
  12. One Too Many Mornings
  13. Rock, Salt And Nails
  14. The Water Is Wide

The Water Is Wide