Levellers The Boatman Lyrics

The Boatman Lyrics

The Boatman

If I could choose the life I pleased
Then I would be a
boatman
Along the canals and the rivers free
No hasty words are
spoken
My only law is the river breeze
Would take me to the open
seas
If I could choose the life I pleased
Then I would be a
boatman

If I could choose the life I pleased
Then I would be a
rover
And if the road was not for me
Then I would choose
another
Across the mountains and the valleys deep
I would take these
weary feet
If I could choose the life I pleased
Then I would be a
rover

But these things are so hard for me
I cannot choose my own
destiny
And all the things that I want to see
Are so unclean

I
wish I could choose the life I please
But I am not a free man
Others
choose my destiny
But my will's never broken
I know someday I will
be
Everything that I dreamed I'd be
If I could choose the life I
pleased
I would be a boatman.