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Nursery rhyme originating in the Usa

Nursery rhyme

"Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
Plant nursery rhyme
Published	1852
Songwriter(due south)	Eliphalet Oram Lyte

"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song. It tin also be an "action" nursery rhyme, whose singers sit opposite one another and "row" forwards and backwards with joined hands. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19236.

Bing Crosby included the vocal in a medley on his album 101 Gang Songs (1961). Crosby likewise used the song equally part of a round with his family during his concert at the London Palladium in 1976. The performance was captured on the anthology Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium.

Lyrics [edit]

The most common modern version is often sung as a round for upward to four vocalisation parts ( play(assistance·info) ). A possible system for SATB is every bit follows:

Soprano	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.	Row, row, row your boat,
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,	Gently downwards the stream.	Row, row, row your boat,
Life is merely a dream.	Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,	Gently down the stream.	Row, row, row your boat,
	Life is but a dream.	Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,	Gently down the stream.
		Life is but a dream.	Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
			Life is but a dream.

The text above is often sung multiple times in succession to allow for the different voices to interweave with each other, forming four-part harmony.

Melody [edit]

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Origins [edit]

The earliest printing of the song is from 1852, when the lyrics were published with similar lyrics to those used today, but with a very different tune. It was reprinted over again two years subsequently with the same lyrics and another melody. The mod tune was outset recorded with the lyrics in 1881, mentioning Eliphalet Oram Lyte in The Franklin Square Vocal Collection just not making information technology clear whether he was the composer or adapter.^[one]

Boosted or alternative verses [edit]

People often add together additional verses, a form of children's street culture, with the intent of either extending the song or (especially in the case of more irreverent versions) to brand information technology funny, parody information technology, or substitute another sensibility for the perceived innocent one of the original. In Bean, Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) and Peter MacNicol (David Langley) besides used this parody singing in the film.^[2] Don Music, a muppet character in Sesame Street, changed the lyrics to feature a car instead of a boat.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Versions include:

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently downward the stream.
If you run across a crocodile,
Don't forget to scream.

and

Row, row, row your boat,
Underneath the stream.
Ha Ha! I fooled you,
I'k a submarine.

and

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently to the shore.
If you run into a panthera leo,
Don't forget to roar.

and

Row, row, row your gunkhole,
Gently around the bath.
If you see a large giraffe,
Don't forget to laugh.

and

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the river.
If you lot come across a polar bear,
Don't forget to shiver.

and

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Throw your teacher overboard,
And mind to her scream.^[half-dozen]

and

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently downwards the stream.
Try to brand it back to shore,
Before your boat sinks.

and

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the creek.
If your boat fills with water,
And then you've got a leak.

Notes and references [edit]

1. ^ Studwell, Southward. M. (1997). The Americana Song Reader. New York: Haworth Press. p. 82. ISBN0-7890-0150-0.
2. ^ Johnson, B. & Cloonan, M. (2009). Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence. Aldershot: Ashgate. p. 98. ISBNi-4094-0049-2.
3. ^ "ten Muppets Kicked Off Sesame Street". BuzzFeed Community. Nov xxx, 2010. Retrieved 2018-07-26 .
4. ^ "What Always Happened to Don Music?The Sesame Workshop Blog". www.sesameworkshop.org. Sesame Workshop. April 8, 2013. Retrieved 2018-07-26 .
5. ^ Reeseman, Bryan (August 21, 2012). "Sesame Street's Don Music: The Original Headbanger – Attention Arrears Delirium". world wide web.bryanreesman.com . Retrieved 2018-07-26 .
6. ^ Lightfoot, C. (1997). The Civilization of Adolescent Risk-Taking Culture and Human Development. New York: Guilford Press. p. 78. ISBNane-57230-232-ane.

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