In your canoe, love, I'd be a tripper,

If you were skipper and I were mate;

In your canoe, love, where sedges shiver

And willows quiver, we'd navigate!

Upon the River, you'd ne'er be lonely,

For, if you only had room for two,

I'd pass my leisure with greatest pleasure

With you, my treasure,—in your canoe!

In your canoe, love, when breezes sigh light,

In tender twilight, we'd drift away;