Lyrics:
Boatman, Boatman, take me across the water
Boatman, Boatman, across the sea of tears
If your tears won't flow there'll be no water for me
If your
with the coils of a snake
And all you could hear was its slither and creep
It cast an envious stare at the boatman
Slid into the water and swam
a place that I can
I'm waiting for the silent boatman
To ferry me across the unknown waters
In this life, though I've tried
Many things couldn't be
Closed
with the coils of a snake
And all you could hear was its slither and creep
It cast an envious stare at the boatman
Slid into the water and swam
of the water's surface broken by this boatman's oars
Cast my words along the south wind
Carry them to where they'll lie
Would it make a difference if you hear me
the mountain...blah blah blah… he meets two scorpion men.
He walks for 24 hours in darkness, he gets to a tavern and meets an old hag.
He travels across the waters
As I sat that night, in the lowliest hell
I sang lonely songs in a tree
When I heard two coins, water in the breeze
The boatman was coming for me
Take me with you I cried to the boatman
The Black Water swallowed up my words
I stood shivering on the shoreline
Watching as they floated out
drifted along in silence
Till the tickle of life trickled in.
And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand,
We were catching fire again.
Oh boatman
can't cross
Counted all her coins, but now they're lost
The boatman waits, where the water is fire
But she's only a bird on a wire.
So close to heaven,
I cannot get to my love if I would die;
For the water of Tyne runs between her and me
And here I must stand with a tear in my 'ee,
Both sighing
I cannot get to my love if I would die
For the waters of Tyne run between her and me
And here I must stand with a tear in my 'ee
Both sighing
drifted along in the silence
'Til the tickle of life trickled in
And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand
We were catching fire again.
Boatman, I
Waters register everything beloved son,
you are made of water
The moon coordinates the tides from the ocean
Be adapted to the waters to meet
I cannot get to my love if I would die
For the water of Tyne runs between her and me
And here I must stand with a tear in my 'ee,
Both sighing
I cannot get to my love if I would dee,
The water of Tyne runs between him and me,
And here I must stand with a tear in my e'e,
Both sighing
The boatman calls from the lake
A lone loon dives upon the water
I put my hand over her
Down in the lime tree arbour
The wind in the trees is
Boatman calls from the lake
A lone loon dives upon the water
I put my hand over hers
Down in the lime tree arbour
The wind in the trees is
Boatman calls from the lake
A lone loon dives upon the water
I put my hand over hers
Down in the lime tree arbour
The wind in the trees is
The boatman calls from the lake
A lone loon dives upon the water
I put my hand over her
Down in the lime tree arbour
The wind in the trees is
A Chieftan to the Highlands bound
Cries, "Boatman, do not tarry
And I'll give thee a silver pound
To row us o'er the ferry"
"Now who be ye
the beast is thought to lay
Burn the scrolls burn the flags burn the hand made leather bags
Burn the water burn the bay burn the orders of the day
Aint no
Waves are so light
Carried by the flow
Down by the shore
There's a boatman's home
The old ferryman
Old and skillful carrier!
Sail your airy boat
Oh annan water's wondrous deep
And my love Annie's wondrous bonny
I'm loathed that she should wet her feet
Because I love her best of any
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