The Water Is Wide

          —  Available for premiere performances

Irish folk song
for SATB div. choir
3.75'

AVAILABLE FOR FIRST PERFORMANCES

This work is available for select first performances.   If you have a strong choir and can provide a decent recording, I'll gladly share the music, and consult with you as needed as you prepare the performance.   Please contact me.
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NOTES

This beloved Irish folk song may be performed separately, or following "Down by the Salley Gardens."  
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LYRICS

The water's wide, I can't cross o'er,
And neither have I wings to fly.
Build me a boat that'll carry two,
And both shall row, my love and I.

Down in the meadow t'other day,
A-gath'ring flowers both fine and gay,
A-gath'ring flowers of red and blue, 
I little thought what love can do.

I leaned my back up against some oak,
Thinking that he was a trusty tree,
But first he bended and then he broke,
And so did my false love to me.

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 how I sink or swim.

O love is handsome, love is fine.
Love is a jewel when 'tis new.
But when it's old, it groweth cold,
And fades away like morning dew.

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