Here are some more verses I've heard for The Water is Wide.

from Steve Goodman

There is a ship, and she sails the sea;
she's loaded deep as deep can be
But not as deep as this love I'm in;
I know not if I sink or swim.

from Elly Ameling

Down in the meadow the other day,
a-gathring flowers both fine and gay,
A-gathring flowers both red and blue,
I little thought what love can do.
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In an era where we want to save time and resources, why don't we all stop putting the apostrophe in ev'ry? Nobody pronounces the middle e in 'every'. Ditto the e in the middle of 'gathering.'