The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #1269   Message #90220
Posted By: Joe Offer
27-Jun-99 - 09:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The River Is Wide...My Love and I
Subject: Water Is Wide, Waly Waly, River is Wide, etc.
We've had some interesting discussions on that song, including on just recently.
Click here for the "Waly, Waly" discussion.
Here's Water Is wide
Here's Water Is Wide - alternate lyrics
Here's water is wide (note the subtle difference?
And, here's river Is Wide (not-so-good thread...
And, lastly, this and this, the Bounty versions.

There are also probably a number of versions in the database, although at first stab, I only found this one and four or five versions that turned up when I searched for waly. This song is probably good for somebody's PhD thesis. It's one of the more talked-about folk songs around.
-Joe Offer-