Water is Wide?
Kristi Vockler
song. Like: who's version is the best, where are the chords/lyrics.
Thanks :)
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Paul J. Stamler
recording "What Fond Delight", just reissued on CD. Write c/o
Cooper/Nelson, 6n631 Brierwood Drive, St. Charles, IL 60175, or phone
708-584-1262. I did the editing on the reissue, so the usual disclaimers
apply, but I got to listen to it really thoroughly and damn, this is a
good album.
Peace.
Paul
Beverly Klemme
Baez Songbook" and she sings it on one of her early Vangaurd releases
(available on CD).
Rick Lee
: I know this has been posted, but I missed it. I need some info on this
From digital tradition, http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/digitrad/list=100:
WATER IS WIDE
[view or play tune]
WATER IS WIDE
The water is wide, I cannot get oer
Neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I
A ship there is 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 against an oak
Thinking it was a trusty tree
But first it bent and then it broke
So did my love prove false to me
I reached my finger into some soft bush
Thinking the fairest flower to find
I pricked my finger to the bone
And left the fairest flower behind
Oh love be handsome and love be kind
Gay as a jewel when first it is new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew
Must I go bound while you go free
Must I love a man who doesn't love me
Must I be born with so little art
As to love a man who'll break my heart
When cockle shells turn silver bells
Then will my love come back to me
When roses bloom in winter's gloom
Then will my love return to me
@love @water @plant
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sung by Beers Family on Golden Skein and Lou and Sally Killen
SF
(DT of April 1995)
Taed Nelson
Compiled by Taed Nelson (nel...@berlioz.nsc.com).
This is made up of versions supplied and sung by a lot of people, including:
Karla Bonoff
Evelyn Gordon
Rob Lopresti
Lorenna McKennitt
James Taylor
Beers Family
and various people on rec.music.folk.
Alternate versions of lines are indented...
The water is wide, I cannot cross o'er
The water is wide, I cannot cross
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 gentle, love is kind
Now, love is tender, and love is kind
Now, love is handsome, and love is fine
Oh, love be handsome, and love be kind
The sweetest flower when first 'tis new
Bright as a jewel when first it's new
And love's a jewel when first it's new
And love is sweet when first it's new
Gay as a jewel when first it is new
But love grows old and waxes cold
But when it's old, love waxes cold
And fades away like morning dew
Down in the meadow the other day
I picked some flowers all wet with dew,
I picked some flowers all bright and gay
Gathering flowers both bright and gay
I picked some flowers all red and blue.
Gathering flowers both red and blue
I little thought what love might do.
I reached out to a rosy bush,
I put my hand into a bush,
I put my hand in some soft bush,
Thinking the fairest flower to find.
Thinking the sweetest flower to find
I pricked my finger on a thorn,
But I pricked my finger to the bone
And left the sweet rosebud behind.
And left the sweetest flower behind.
Leaving the fairest flower behind
I leaned my back against an oak
I leaned by back against a reed
Thinking it was a trusty tree
Thinking it was a mighty tree
But first it bent and then it broke
And so did my false love to me
And thus did my love prove false to me
And thus did my love unto me
As my own love proved false to me
As did my false "true love" to me
There is a ship and she sails the sea
There was a ship that sailed the seas
She's loaded deep as deep can be
Sunk as deep as deep can be
She's loaded deep with jewels rare
But not as deep as the love I'm in
I know not how I sink or swim
I know not whether I'll sink or swim
[The song "Carrighfergus" by Loreena McKennitt is a similar song which has the
following verse:]
But the sea is wide, and I can't swim over.
Neither have I wings to fly.
If I could find me a handsome boatsman
To ferry me over to my love and die.
[These are two verses supplied by Rob Lopresti. The first is stolen from a
song with the same tune (and many similar verses), and the second is
Englishized from a Scottish poem called "Abandoned" which uses many of the
same verses and images as Waly Waly.]
If I had known when first I courted (or kissed)
That live was such a killing crime
I'd have locked my heart in a box of gold
And tied it up with silver twine
Tis not the frost that freezes so
Nor blowing snow's inclemency
Tis not this cold that makes me cry
But my love's heart grown cold to me
Pierre Borgnat
French by Graeme Allright, with the title "La mer est immense" (exactly the
same meaning). The lines tells the same thing as in English.
Craig Miller
listening:
Maura O Connell, from JUST IN TIME (Rounder records). This version is a
capella. Maura has very robust, full Irish voice.
Mary Black, from WITHOUT THE FANFARE (GiftHorse Records). Another Irish
folkie, but this version is accompanied and a little jazzier.
Karla Bonoff, from RESTLESS NIGHTS (Columbia Records). This is my
personal favorite. The acoustic guitar arrangement is lovely, there are
some nice, Parisian-boulevard accordian flourishes and Karla's voice is
well suited to it. This version of the song is also available on the
soundtrack to the TV series thirtysomething.
This is surely one of the most-recorded folk/gospel chestnuts, however,
so there are doubtless dozens of other good interpretations of the
song. Hope this helps.
L. Davis
lovesongs, although overall the CD is a bit too saccharine to listen to
all at once.
Kerry Dexter
: I know this has been posted, but I missed it. I need some info on this
: song. Like: who's version is the best, where are the chords/lyrics.
: Thanks :)
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my favorite versions are by Del Suggs on the CD Floating on the
Surface (Key Porpoise Records) and Rory Block on High Heeled Blues
(Rounder Records).
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kerry dexter
Steve Senderoff
for a totally non-saccharine version, check out the late Ozarks singer
Almeda Riddle on an old Minstrel-Collegium Sound Studios
recording...sounds like nails on a chalk board untill you appreciate the
greatness of the tradition she sings out of and the power of her
music...imho the best version
regards, steve
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"...ya run your E string down, oh I don't know, about three frets....anyway, it corresponds to the third note on the A string..."
....Tommy Jarrell
A34T
it can be found on any of his records, however, as I have only heard it on
a local folk music radio program.
NINA HOFFERT
multiple acoustic guitar accompaniment. Karla Bonoff's is done in D.
E-Mail me for chords and words. I don't have them at my fingertips
right now but can get them to whomever would like.
Tiny Demon
Scottish tune, "Carrickfergus" (which was not written by Lorena
McKinnett!) The great Van Morrison has a wonderful version of it but I
can't remember on which album. If you are interested in the song you may
want to listen to a version of the original.
Sioux