Revels RiverSing: Two Dragons Dancing Song Sheet

September 23, 2023

River
by Bill Staines

Refrain:
River, take me along
In your sunshine, sing me your song
Ever moving and winding and free
You rolling old river,
you changing old river,
Let’s you and me, river,
run down to the sea.



The Water is Wide
by Cecil Sharp

The water is wide, I cannot cross o’er.
And neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row my true love and I.

A ship there is and she sails the seas
She’s laden deep as deep can be
But not so deep as the love I’m in
And I know not if, I sink or swim.

The water is wide, I cannot cross o’er.
And neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row my true love and I.



Rowing Down the River
by David Coffin, tune by Jack Forbes

Refrain:
Rowing up, rowing down,
From Hopkinton to Charlestown;
You can’t go straight so meander ‘round
To go rowing down the river.



Michael Row Your Boat Ashore
Traditional African American Spiritual

Refrain:
Michael row your boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael row your boat ashore, hallelujah
Sister help to trim the sail, hallelujah
Sister help to trim the sail, hallelujah

Michael row your boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael row your boat ashore, hallelujah
The River Jordan is chilly and cold, hallelujah
Chills the body, but not the soul, hallelujah

Michael row your boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael row your boat ashore, hallelujah
Jordan River is deep and wide, hallelujah
Milk and honey on the other side, hallelujah

Michael row your boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael row your boat ashore, hallelujah



Windmills
by Alan Bell

Refrain:
And around and around and around went the big sail
Turning the shaft and the great wooden wheel
Creaking and groaning, the millstones kept turning
Grinding to flour the good corn from the field



Oak and Ash and Thorn (The Tree Song)
by Peter Bellamy

Refrain:
Sing Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs
All of a midsummer’s morn
Surely we’ll sing of no little thing
In Oak, and Ash, and Thorn

 
 
The Farthest Field
by David Dodson

Refrain:
Walk with me and we will see the mystery revealed
When one day we wend our way up to the farthest field