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07 Apr 97 - 12:09 AM (#3933) Subject: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: Evenin' mates. My sweetheart only knows a little of the above tune. Anyone know all the lyrics? Thanks in advance. Juan balderas@apeleon.net Threads on this song:
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07 Apr 97 - 02:16 AM (#3939) Subject: RE: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: Bill Howdy Juan, Variations of this song have been discussed a lot here recently. Look for duscussions of The Water Is Wide and of Waly Waly in particular. You can find both versions and other related songs in the database, but I've only heard it with water, not river. Allinkausay, Bill |
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25 Apr 97 - 11:42 AM (#4304) Subject: RE: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: The song The Water is Wide can be found on a Karla Bonoff CD. If you still need the lyrics let me know and I will get them for you. It's a lovely song. Goes something like The Water is Wide I can't cross over and neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat that can carry two and both shall row my love and I. |
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25 Apr 97 - 01:43 PM (#4309) Subject: RE: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: Harald.Schmidt@darmstadt.netsurf.de Do you mean the Irish song "Carrickfergus"? There's a lovely cersion on CD sung by Van Morrison & The Chieftains. The name of the record is "Irish Heartbeat" |
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27 Jun 99 - 08:42 PM (#90211) Subject: One more 'river' song From: I'm trying to hunt down the title/lyrics of a song that i've heard covered by everyone from Lucy Blue Tremblay to Garrison Keillor, but can't locate in the datagbase: The first verse goes something like: The river is wide I can't cross over and neither have I wings to fly Build (or "give") me a boat that can carry two and both will row my love and I Anyone know the rest of the song? |
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27 Jun 99 - 08:47 PM (#90212) Subject: RE: One more 'river' song From: harpgirl It's in the DT as Water is Wide...oh namelss one...harpgirl |
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27 Jun 99 - 09:21 PM (#90220) Subject: Water Is Wide, Waly Waly, River is Wide, etc. From: Joe Offer 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- |
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25 Apr 08 - 03:38 PM (#2325656) Subject: RE: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: GUEST,C.C. Porter We have an album out w/ the song on it. "Back Inside the Dream " . Go on cdbaby.com and type in c.c. porter. It's an orchestrated version with Uzca. We have an acoustic version w/ guitar only on "Earthstrings" if you would like to sing it to accompaniment. C.C. |
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25 Apr 08 - 05:13 PM (#2325722) Subject: RE: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: Little Robyn The Radio Concert Programme here in NZ played the orchestrated version last week and it was quite enjoyable. I'm not sure if it was a Percy Granger or Vaughan Williams arrangement. But then the stupid announcer, at the end said "That was Wally Wally". I think he was a bit of a Wally! Robyn |
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26 Apr 08 - 04:54 PM (#2326474) Subject: RE: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: Joules one of the best versions of this song, in my opinion, is sung by Judy Dinning of "Real Time" and ex Bad Penny and is well worth a listen |
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16 Feb 09 - 01:11 PM (#2568353) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: GUEST try the kingston trio version the river is wide |
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16 Feb 09 - 01:30 PM (#2568368) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: Joan from Wigan Here's Edward Gabrielson singing The River Is Wide It's definitely a version of "The Water Is Wide / Waly Waly", with the same tune and some of the same "floating verses" plus some other verses I'd not heard before. |
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16 Feb 09 - 04:37 PM (#2568542) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: Joan from Wigan A further search, and it appears Edward is singing (more or less) the Kingston Trio version, which appears in another thread here |
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15 Aug 09 - 04:33 AM (#2700769) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The River Is Wide.....My Love and I From: GUEST,camwi The river is wide I can't cross over And neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat that can carry two And both shall row, my love and I. Oh, love is gentle And love is kind The sweetest flower When first it's new But love grows old And waxes cold And fades away Like morning dew. There is a ship And she sails the sea She's loaded deep As deep can be But not as deep As the love I'm in I know not how I sink or swim. The water is wide I can't cross over And neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat That can carry two And both shall row My love and I. And both shall row My love and I. arranged and adapted by Frank Hamilton, Pete Seeger & Karla Bonoff |