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Tarplin, M.: Ain't That Peculiar Torme, Melvin H.: The Christmas Song
Taylor, Tony: Emotional Step Trad.: Bold Young Farmer
Taylor, Tony: I've Got This Feeling Trad.: Danny Boy
Taylor, Tony: On The Inside Trad.: Wade In The Water
Taylor, Tony: You Are Trad.: Waly Waly
Theard, Sam: Let The Good Times Roll Trad.: The Water Is Wide
Thiele, Robert: What A Wonderful World Trad.: Way Beyond The Blue
Thompson, Wayne Carson: The Letter Trad.: Wayfaring Stranger

The Water Is Wide

(Trad. arr. Eva Cassidy)






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The water is wide I cannot get over
And neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row my love and I

Oh love is handsome and love is fine
And love's a jewel when it's first new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like morning dew

There is a ship it’s sailing the sea
It’s loaded deep as deep can be
But not so deep as my love for him
I know not if I sink or swim

The water is wide I cannot get over
And neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row my love and I

And both shall row my love and I



►Tab/Chords
found on (#1) AT (cd/cas); (#2) LAP.
►Lyrics identical for #1 and #2. As a child Eva learned this song from her father, Hugh Cassidy (see Laura's AT songs page). Several Cassidy family favorite artists also included the song variously known as The Water Is Wide and Waly Waly in their repertoires: Pete Seeger, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Harry Belafonte, Odetta and others. See below. Except for slight verbal variations TWIW stanzas 2-3  are identical with Waly Waly st. 2-3. Waly Waly repeats st. 2 as its fourth stanza; only its first stanza is without a counterpart in TWIW. Also see notes to Waly Waly.
►More than a dozen threads at Mudcat Cafe are concerned with this song and WW.
►For printed sources and references to related songs see Ibiblio Folk Index
►PL - Song by song; PL - ECB live.
original: ? (folk song).
covers: Joan Baez; Robert Beers (196?); Beers Family (196?); Leon Bibb (196?); Karla Bonoff (1979); Cascadia Folk Quartet (1996); Phil Coulter (1992); Cowboy Junkies; Bruce Davies (1997); Bob Dylan (1996); [more...] John Gorka; Shirley Grimes (1993); Carolyn Hester (1961); Sam Hinton (1967); Jane and Ireland (1979); Lou & Sally Killen (1975); Kingston Trio (1961); Esther Kreek (1989); John Langstaff (2002); Bonnie Leigh (1998); Roger McGuinn (1973); Madeline MacNeil (197?); Doug Murray (1973); Maura O'Connell (1988); New Seekers (196?); Tom Paxton (1996); Almeda Riddle (1977); Linda Russell (1984); Pete Seeger (1958); Peter Stanley, Judith Lang & Christopher Stanley (1999); Steeleye Span (1996); Tarriers (196?); James Taylor (1991); Josh White, Jr. (1965?) (Cover Info; Covers Project; Ibiblio Folk Index).
►Matt's original tab at Yahoo EC group.
chords by Sally.