{"id":240,"date":"2020-04-05T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=240"},"modified":"2020-04-05T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:47:39","slug":"the-water-is-wide-trad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"The Water Is Wide. Trad."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The water is wide, I can\u2019t cross over<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither have I wings to fly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a boat&nbsp; that can carry two<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And both shall row, my love and I&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A ship there is and she sails the sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s loaded deep as deep can be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But not so deep as the love I&#8217;m in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know not if I sink or swim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Water is wide I cannot cross over&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither have I the wings to fly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a boat that can carry two<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And both shall row my love and I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh love be handsome and love be kind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the sweetest flower when first it is new<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But love grows old and waxes cold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And fades away like the morning dew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Water is wide I cannot cross over&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither have I the wings to fly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a boat that can carry two<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And both shall row my love and I<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chorus. The water is wide, I can\u2019t cross over Neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat&nbsp; that can carry two And both shall row, my love and I&nbsp; A ship there is and she sails the sea She&#8217;s loaded deep as deep can be But not so deep as the love I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Water Is Wide. Trad.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}