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Song «The Water Is Wide» von Carolyn Hester.
Fakten
Veröffentlichungsdaten: 1961 (Album)
Label: Tradition TLP 1043
Songwriter Traditional
Produktion:
Genre: Folk - Urbanfolk - American-Folkmusic-Revival
Annotationen
Das Schottische Traditional – auch unter dem Namen O Waly, Waly
bekannt – geht auf das 17. Jahrhundert zurück.
Personen und Querverweise
Lyrics
"O Waly, Waly" The water is wide, I cannot get o'er, And neither have I wings to fly. Give me a boat that will carry two, And both shall row, my love and I. There is 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 if I sink or swim. I leaned my back up against some oak Thinking that he was a trusty tree; But first he bended, and then he broke, And so did my false love to me. O, love is handsome and love is fine, And love's a jewel when first it's new, But when it is old, it groweth cold, And fades away like summer dew. The water is wide, I cannot get o'er, And neither have I wings to fly. Give me a boat that will carry two, And both shall row, my love and I.