Alas I Cannot Swim

There's a house across the river but alas I cannot swim

And a garden of such beauty that the flowers seem to grin

There's a house across the river but alas I cannot swim

I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

There's a boy across the river with short black curly hair

He wants to be my lover and I want to be his peer

There's a boy across the river but alas I cannot swim

I never will get to put my arms around him