The water is wide I cannot get o'er And neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat that will carry two And both shall row my love and I O down in the meadows the other day A-gathering flowers both fine and gay A-gathering flowers both 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 if I sink or swim O love is handsome and love is fine And love's a jewel while it is new But when it is old it growth cold And fades away like morning dew