This is a traditional Scottish folk song.  The lyric has changed over the years.  It was first documented in southern England in 1906 by Cecil Sharp.

Arrangement and all instruments and voices by Robert Strickland

The Water Is Wide

Sexual desire is often taught to be transmuted or transformed by the will of the personality.

This teaching, found in many religious traditions, subtly carries a judgment against the feminine principle of life. ( In Taoist terms Earth) 

Andrew emphasizes the importance of honoring both heaven and earth within us equally. In other words, love is not superior to orgasm, just as heaven is not superior to earth.

The Tao gives birth to both heaven and earth simultaneously, with neither preceding the other.

In the same way heaven and earth birth humanity. 

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