I have a song on tape from a radio. I have no idea who's the woman singing it. I can make out most of the words, but not quite all. The story is about a boy drowned in a lake. I'm not sure of the lake, but the tag line at the end of each verse is:

There's deep and false water in the lake of...

If it's not Champlain, it rhymes with it. The style of the verses sounds old, maybe 18th Cent or not too far into the 19th, but of course it might be pseudo-old.

Couldn't find the words in the DT, searching for [deep and false water] or [false water] --those words take me mightily-- and I'd be grateful for the name of the lake, a full set of words, info about the provenance of the song, guesses about the singer, anything...