The water is wide I can’t cross o’er and neither have I wings to fly.
Build me a boat that can 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 how I sink or swim.
Oh, love is handsome and love is fine, the sweetest flow’r when first it’s new.
But love grows old and waxes cold, and fades away like summer dew.
(Instrumental)
Build me a boat that can carry two, and both shall row, my love and I.
And both shall row, my love and I.
Old Scottish folk song. First published in 1906 in “Folk Songs From Somerset”. This version is adapted from a version sung by Pete Seeger – Performed by James Taylor – Album: New Moon Shine