| Song | The Water Is Wide |
| Artist | Karla Bonoff |
| Album | The Best Of Karla Bonoff: All My Life |
| The water is wide | |
| I cannot swim ore | |
| and neither have I | |
| the wings to fly | |
| give me a boat | |
| that can carry two | |
| and we both shall row | |
| my true love and I | |
| A ship there is | |
| and she sails the seas | |
| she's laden deep | |
| as deep can be | |
| but not so deep | |
| as the love I'm in | |
| and I know not if | |
| i sink or swim | |
| I leaned my back | |
| against a young oak | |
| thinkin he was | |
| a trusty tree | |
| but first he bended | |
| and then he broke | |
| thus did my love | |
| prove false to me | |
| Oh love is handsome | |
| and love is kind | |
| bright as a jewl | |
| when first it's new | |
| but love grows old | |
| and waxes cold | |
| and fades away | |
| like the morning dew | |
| and fades away | |
| like the morning dew |