Odetta - False Love lyrics

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The river is wide, I can't get o'er<br />

Nor do I have like wings to fly<br />

Give me a boat that can carry two,<br />

And both shall cross my love and I<br />

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Oh waly, waly, up the bank<br />

And waly, waly down the braes,<br />

And waly, waly by yon burnside<br />

Where me and my love was wont to go<br />

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I leaned my back against an oak<br />

Thinking it was a trusty tree,<br />

But first it bent and then it broke,<br />

And so did my love prove false to me<br />

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I put my hand in some soft bush<br />

Thinking the sweetest flower to find<br />

I pricked my finger to the bone<br />

And left the sweetest flower behind<br />

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Oh, love is handsome, love is kind<br />

Gay as a jewel when first it's new<br />

But love grows old and waxes cold,<br />

And fades away like morning dew<br />