The Water is wide (see more recent one for better sounding autoharp....

1700's ballad that was inspired by a lovely retired music teacher from Arlington, VA who attended a autoharp gathering in 2006 or 2007: This is what I would sing to one with whom I wanted to create a life together, beyond survival, to make every day something worth living: Will redo this on better camera with dual remote microphones and better autoharp: This is an old 15 chord Chromoharp with fine turners, virtually a solid block of wood with strings on it but sounding OK for what it is. Apologies for the length: Got so into the song that I surpassed the 3 minute cut-off twice!
New information off Youtube:
Originally Oh Waly Waly, about Lady Barbara Erskine, daughter of the 9th Earl of Mar. Married the 2nd Marquis of Douglas in 1670, but falsley accused of adultery by , Lowrie of Blackwood, a man she would not love. She returned to her father and died unmarried.
Thanks to givsum , another YouTube giver, about two years ago, borrowed from A Pete Seger version of this song also on Youtube...

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• Water is Wide
• Wally Wally
• ballad
• oldTyme
• instrumental
• autoharp
• chromatic
• Celtic