A Voice in the Wilderness: The Water is Wide

A Voice in the Wilderness

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. -- William O. Douglas

Friday, March 14, 2008

The Water is Wide - Irish Traditional Song

The Water is Wide
Irish Traditional Song
Performed by Indigo Girls, Sarah MacLachlin and Jewel

The water is wide, I cannot get oer
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 and love is kind
The sweetest flower when first it is new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew

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

The water is wide, I cannot get oer
and neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I

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