TITEL: The Water Is Wide
INTERPRET: Traditional  Arranged by James Taylor & Don Grolnick 1991
TEMPO: moderately slow
KEY: F


[INTRO]


[1.]
        
      The wate

            
r is wide,    

         
  I can't cros

   
s over
            
And neither ha

            
ve    I wings 

   
to fly
             
    Build me a

     
 boat        t

        
hat can carry 

     
two
           
    And both s

        
hall row,     

            
my love  and I

[2.]
         
    There is a

       
   ship       

             
  and she sail

         
s the sea
             
  She's loaded

     
 deep        a

         
s   deep can b

  
e
         
   But not so 

        
 deep     as t

         
he love I'm   

   
 in
           
   I know not 

      
how      I sin

           
k or swim

[3.]
         
   Oh, love   

        
is   handsome 

    
         and l

          
ove is fine
             
   The sweetes

       
t flower      

       
  when first i

        
t's new
         
   but love gr

        
ows old     an

        
d waxes      c

  
old
          
   and fades a

       
way       like

             
 summer dew

[SOLO]
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[4.]
         
   Build me a 

        
   boat     th

         
at can carry  

   
two
           
   And both sh

      
all row,      

                
my love  and I
      
       And bot

          
h shall row,  

         
    my love  a

         
nd I