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Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
A rowboat is one way to get around, and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is a type of song called "a round." A round is a song sung by two or more people, with each voice beginning the song at a different time. Although the voices are singing different words at any given time, they all blend together harmoniously.
A
rowboat that is used to go back and forth to larger boats is often
called a dinghy. This sign at the harbor in Fernandina Beach, Florida,
always makes me smile. And it reminds me of this joke:
A rowboat passed too close to a big Navy ship. The ship's captain picked up his bullhorn and yelled: "Are you crazy?!" The skipper of the rowboat replied, "No, just a little dinghy."
Mother Osprey Poem: Row, Row, Row Your Boat, of course!
Illustration from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: An encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (1889) (image available through etc.usf.edu/clipart)
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Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
A rowboat is one way to get around, and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is a type of song called "a round." A round is a song sung by two or more people, with each voice beginning the song at a different time. Although the voices are singing different words at any given time, they all blend together harmoniously.
A
rowboat that is used to go back and forth to larger boats is often
called a dinghy. This sign at the harbor in Fernandina Beach, Florida,
always makes me smile. And it reminds me of this joke:A rowboat passed too close to a big Navy ship. The ship's captain picked up his bullhorn and yelled: "Are you crazy?!" The skipper of the rowboat replied, "No, just a little dinghy."
Mother Osprey Poem: Row, Row, Row Your Boat, of course!
Illustration from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: An encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (1889) (image available through etc.usf.edu/clipart)
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