No water is wide, I cannot get homeAnd neither have I wings to flyBuild me a boat that will carry twoAnd both shall go, my love and II lean my back up against some poleThinking that he was a trusty manBut first he bended and then he brokeAnd so did my false love to meThe ship there is and she sails the seaShe's loaded deep as deepCan be, but not so deepAs the love I knewI know not if I sink or swimThe water is wide, I cannot get homeAnd neither have I wings to flyBuild me a boat that will carry twoAnd both shall go, my love and IAnd both shall go, my love and II lean my back up against some pole