5 Traditional Songs: No. 2, 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 O'down in the meadows the other day A-gathering flowers both fine and gay A-gathering flowers both red and blue I little thought what love can do I leaned my back up against an oak Thinking that he was a trusty tree But first he bent in and then he broke And so did my false love to thee A ship there is, and she sails the seas She's laden deep, as deep can be But no so deep, as the love I'm in I know not if I sink or swim O, love is handsome and love is fine And love's a jewel o while it is new But when it is old, it groweth cold And fades away, like a morning dew