The Boatman Lyrics

The song The Boatman is performed by The Levellers in the album named Levelling the Land in the year 1992 .



If I could choose the life I please
Then I would be a boatman
On the canals and the rivers free
No hasty words are spoken
My only law is the river breeze
That takes me to the open seas
If I could choose the life I please
Then I would be a boatman

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

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

Well I wish I could choose the life I please
But I am not a free man
Others rule my destiny
But my will's never broken
I know someday I will be
Everything that I dreamed I'd be
And when I live the life I please
Then I will be a freeman.

I know someday I will be
Everything that I dreamed I'd be
And when I live the life I please
Then I will be a freeman.

And when I live the life I please
Then I will be a freeman.



The Levellers - Levelling the Land

May 1992

  1. One Way
  2. The Game
  3. The Boatman
  4. Liberty Song
  5. Far From Home
  6. Sell Out
  7. Another Man's Cause
  8. The Road
  9. The Riverflow
  10. Battle Of The Beanfield
  11. Fifteen Years

The Boatman