Lyr Req: A Boy and a Girl in a Little Canoe

Subject: A boy and a girl in a little canoe
From: Coralena
Date: 21 Mar 97 - 02:33 PM

Anyone have the lyrics to this one? Thank you.

Subject: RE: A boy and a girl in a little canoe
From:
Date: 22 Mar 97 - 02:35 AM

I remember a big chunk of it, but it seems like a verse may be missing.

ahem.... mi mi mi mi miiii

a boy took a girl in a little canoe when the moon was shining all around and as he plyed his paddle you couldn't even hear a sound so they talked and they talked til the moon grew dim he said you better kiss me or get out and swim so what you gonna do in a little canoe **when the moon is shining all around?

(repeat until **) when the moon is shining all-a, boys are paddling all-a, girls are swimming all around.

Subject: RE: A boy and a girl in a little canoe
From: GUEST,Anonimus Children Who Can't Spell Anonimus
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 09:02 PM

"A boy took a girl in a little canoe
With the moon shining all around
And as they paddled that little canoe
You couldn't even hear a sound!
So they talked and they talked 'til the moon grew dim
And the boy said Kiss me or get out and swim
So what'chu gonna do in a little canoe
With the girl paddling all-a
The boy swimming all-a
The moon shining all around?
Hey!"

There're hand motions, too. The way I learned it was actually with the girl getting out and swimming, but I like this version better.

Subject: RE: A boy and a girl in a little canoe
From: number 6
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 09:34 PM

On the topic of canoes I'll post this beautiful song by the late John Hartford (hope no one minds).

On Tombigbee river so bright I was born,
In a hut made of husks of the tall yaller corn,
An there I first met with my Julia so true
An I row'd her about In my Gum Tree Canoe

Chorus:
Singing row away row, O'er the waters so blue,
Like a feather we'll float, In my Gum Tree Canoe

All day in the field of soft cotton I hoe,
I think of my Julia and sing as I go,
Oh I catch her a bird, with a wing of true blue,
An at night sail her round in my Gum Tree Canoe.
Singing row away

Chorus

With my hands on the banjo and toe on the oar,
I sing to the sound of the rivers soft roar;
While the stars they look down at my Julia so true,
An' dance in her eye in my Gum Tree Canoe.
Singing row away


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Subject: RE: A boy and a girl in a little canoe
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 08:37 PM

John Hartford recorded GUM TREE CANOE but he didn't write it. It was written by S. S. Steele in 1847. See this thread: Lyr Req: Gum Tree Canoe

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A boy and a girl in a little canoe
From: number 6
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 11:02 PM

I'm sorry for the misundertsanding ... I never said he wrote it ... the only version of the song I've heard is by John Hartford. Regardless, it's a wondeful song.

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