Water Is Wide chords by Jon Boden

SimplifiedD · G · C · Em

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Verse 1
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The water is wide,
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I cannot get on
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And neither have I wings to fly
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Build me a boat that will carry two
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And both shall row, my love and I
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Down in the meadow the other day
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A -gathering flowers, both fine and gay
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A gathering flowers both red and blue,
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I little thought what love can do.
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I leaned my back up against an oak,
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Thinking  that he  was a trusty tree,
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But first it bent and then it broke
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An  d so did my false love to me
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There is a ship an d she sails the sea
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She's loaded deep as deep can be
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But not so deep as the love I'm in
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I don't know if I sink or swim
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When the water is white,
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I cannot get o 'er,
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And neither have I wings to fly.
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Em 
Build me a boat that will carry two
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C 
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And both shall row,
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my love and I you