Row, Row, Row Your Boat
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"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is a nursery rhyme, and a popular children's song, often sung as a round. It can also be an 'action' nursery rhyme where singers sit opposite one another and 'row' forwards and backwards with joined hands. The tune is credited to Eliphalet Oram Lyte in the publication The Franklin Square Song Collection (1881, New York), which also indicates that he adapted the lyric:
Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.
Additional verses
- Row, row, row the boat
- Gently down the stream
- If you see a crocodile
- Don't forget to scream
- Row, row, row the boat
- Gently down the river
- If you see a polar bear
- Don't forget to shiver
- Row, row, row the boat
- Gently to the shore
- If you see a lion
- Don't forget to roar
- Row, row, row the boat
- Gently in the bath
- If you see a spider
- Don't forget to laugh
- Row, row, row the boat
- Gently as can be
- 'Cause if you're not careful
- You'll fall into the sea!
In popular culture
It was sung by Captain Kirk and Leonard McCoy (to the bemusement of Spock) at the beginning of .
It appears also in film 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' sung by Baby Joel.
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