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"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song, of American origin, often sung in a round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19236. Lyrics
A man works a cornfield on St. Helena Island, where "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" was first attested. "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" (also called "Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore", "Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore", or "Michael, Row That Gospel Boat") is a traditional spiritual first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island, one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. [2]
Creator of Row Row Row Your Boat Eliphalet Oram Lyte (June 29, 1842 – January 3, 1913) was an American teacher and author of grammar and composition textbooks. He is credited as the composer of the tune to the popular song " Row, Row, Row Your Boat " in the publication The Franklin Square Song Collection (1881, New York).
Peder Elias Eriksrud Kjørholt (born 14 January 1997) [1] is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. [2] He debuted in 2018 and released his first album, Love & Loneliness , in 2022. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] As a boy he sang in the Nidaros Cathedral Men and Boys' choir .
Saletan is responsible for the modern rediscovery, in the mid-1950s, of two of the genre's best-known songs, "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" and "Kumbaya". In 1955, he was the first performer to appear on Boston's educational television station, WGBH. In 1969, Saletan was the first musical guest to appear on Sesame Street.
Same Boat; The Saucy Arethusa; Ship Ahoy! (All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor) The Ship that Never Returned; Sink the Bismark (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay; Six Months in a Leaky Boat; Sloop John B; Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat; The Song of the Volga Boatmen; Song of the Yue Boatman; Southbound (Carrie Underwood song) Southern Cross (Crosby ...
As Zedek has stated, Daniel Coughlin, the band's "drummer had made this recording of all these songs he had written, one of the songs involved 'row, row, row your boat.' Plus there was the cover we used (of someone watching an enormous wave collapse from shore), and I was thinking, 'gently down the stream' seems like a good theme for a record."
I have run across a number of different references with respect to this song being a metaphor for how we should guide our lives with the final line being the argument for guiding your life in the manner suggested: Row, row, row (continuous effort guiding in a specific direction) your boat (specifically your life and nobody elses - everyone ...