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.