The Boatman

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 rover 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 rover 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.