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Joan Baez, Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter Sing ‘The Water Is Wide’

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Joan Baez, Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter sing “The Water Is Wide,” a traditional song rearranged by Joan Baez, during the Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration at the Beacon Theatre in New York on January 27, 2016.

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[ 'Water is Wide' plays ] ♪ The water is wide ♪ I can't cross o'er ♪ And neither have ♪ I wings to fly ♪ Give me a boat ♪ That can carry two ♪ And both shall row ♪ My love and I -♪ Oh, love is gentle ♪ And love is kind ♪ The sweetest flower ♪ When first it's new ♪ But love grows old ♪ And waxes cold ♪ And fades away ♪ Like morning dew -♪ There is a ship ♪ And she sails the sea ♪ She's loaded deep ♪ As deep can be

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