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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">The Water Is Wide</h1>
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  16 <p>Trad.<br />
  17 Performed by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez (8 times) during the first
  18 Rolling Thunder Tour (1975), and 3 times in 1989-90. Released on
  19 <a class="recordlink" href="../42_bs5/index.htm">Live 1975</a> (2002)<br />
  20 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  22 <p>The tab is based on the version from Plymouth, Oct 1975</p>
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  27 G
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  29              G          C           G
  30 The water is wide and I can't cross over
  31         Em              D
  32 Neither have I wings to fly
  33 [n.c.]     Bm                  C
  34 Build me a boat that can carry two
  35                G  D            C G/b Am G (C/g G)
  36 And both shall row my love and I.
  37
  38 There is a ship and it sails on the sea
  39 Loaded deep as deep can be
  40 But not as deep as the love I'm in
  41 I know not if I sink or swim.
  42
  43 I leaned my back up against an oak
  44 Thinkin' it was a trusty tree
  45 But first it bent and then it broke
  46 Just like my own false love to me.
  47
  48 Oh love is gentle, love is kind
  49 Gay as a jewel when first it's new
  50 But love grows old and waxes cold
  51 And fades away like some morning dew.
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  53 The water is wide and I can't cross over
  54 Neither have I wings to fly
  55 Build me a boat that can carry two
  56 And both shall row my love and I.
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