The Water is Wide – David Roth, Dulcimer

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The water is wide, I cannot get oer
Neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I

A ship there is and she sails the sea
She’s loaded deep as deep can be
But not so deep as the love I’m in
I [...]

Coleman’s March – Dave Roth, Dulcimer

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Banish Misfortune

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Tommy

Tommy had a watch, a good kind of watch
It wouldn’t tell time if you asked it
Didn’t have a face, just an ear and an eye
To see him with
Tommy stole candy from the cornerstore
And gave it to the mice he built a home for
By the side of the heater, next to his guitar
That he could neither [...]

The Boxer

I am just a poor boy and my storys seldom told
Ive squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises
All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest, hmmmm
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy
In the company of [...]