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The Water Is Wide chords by Karla Bonoff

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Drop Chord diagramD MajorD

Difficulty: Novice

Karla Bonoff
The Water Is Wide
(Traditional)

(She plays Drop D, but it gets kinda difficult with low chords such as Chord diagramG+G and Chord diagramF# minorF#m)

Intro: Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramGmaj7Gmaj7  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7  Chord diagramAsus4Asus4
       Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD

Chord diagramG+G     Chord diagramA augmentedA  Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramGmaj7Gmaj7  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7  Chord diagramAsus4Asus4       Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
The water is wide,           I can't cross over
    Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramA/C#A/C#  Chord diagramB minorBm  Chord diagramBm/ABm/A  Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramE minor 7Em7      Chord diagramAsus4Asus4  Chord diagramA augmentedA
And neither have         I wings to fly
     Chord diagramA augmentedA  Chord diagramA/GA/G Chord diagramF# minorF#m   Chord diagramD7D7                Chord diagramG+G   G/f#  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
Give me a   boat     that can carry two
               Chord diagramF# minorF#m  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7   Chord diagramAsus4Asus4 Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramD MajorD
And both shall row,    my love  and I

Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramA augmentedA  Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramGmaj7Gmaj7  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7      Chord diagramAsus4Asus4   Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
Oh, love is gentle             and love is kind
    Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramA/C#A/C# Chord diagramB minorBm    Chord diagramBm/ABm/A  Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramE minor 7Em7        Chord diagramAsus4Asus4  Chord diagramA augmentedA
The sweetest flower        when first it's new
    Chord diagramA augmentedA    Chord diagramA/GA/G   Chord diagramF# minorF#m  Chord diagramD7D7           Chord diagramG+G   G/f#  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
but love grows old     and waxes cold
          Chord diagramF minorFm   Chord diagramE minor 7Em7     Chord diagramAsus4Asus4   Chord diagramD MajorD
and fades away    like morning dew

[Solo with basically the same chords]

Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramGmaj7Gmaj7  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7         Chord diagramAsus4Asus4     Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
There is a ship            and she sails the sea
      Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramA/C#A/C# Chord diagramB minorBm  Chord diagramBm/ABm/A  Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramE minor 7Em7      Chord diagramAsus4Asus4  Chord diagramA augmentedA
She's loaded  deep        as deep can be
    Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramA/GA/G Chord diagramF# minorF#m   Chord diagramD7D7                 Chord diagramG+G   G/f#  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
But not as  deep     as the love I'm in
           Chord diagramF# minorF#m   Chord diagramE minor 7Em7  Chord diagramAsus4Asus4   Chord diagramD MajorD
I know not how      I sink or swim

Chord diagramG+G     Chord diagramA augmentedA  Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramGmaj7Gmaj7  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7  Chord diagramAsus4Asus4       Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
The water is wide,           I can't cross over
    Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramA/C#A/C#  Chord diagramB minorBm  Chord diagramBm/ABm/A  Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramE minor 7Em7      Chord diagramAsus4Asus4  Chord diagramA augmentedA
And neither have         I wings to fly
     Chord diagramA augmentedA  Chord diagramA/GA/G Chord diagramF# minorF#m   Chord diagramD7D7                Chord diagramG+G   G/f#  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
Give me a   boat     that can carry two
               Chord diagramF# minorF#m  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7   Chord diagramAsus4Asus4 Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramD MajorD
And both shall row,    my love  and I
    Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramAsus4Asus4  Chord diagramA augmentedA               Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD
And both shall row,      my love  and I

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