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06 Feb 02 - 08:55 PM (#644213) Subject: row row row your boat From: Cap't Bob I would like to locate the lyrics to a song Arthur Godfrey did back in the 50's. About the only line I remember goes: "Row, row, row your boat, up the River St. Lawrence. Hollering, hollering, hollering, hollering for Fluorence". Anyone remember this one? Cap't Bob |
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06 Feb 02 - 09:09 PM (#644221) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Amos Gee, Bob, for a minute I thought this was thesuper troll of all time!! I'm sorry, but the only Godfrey song I remember is the Monkey and the Owl: "Since you're so very kind sir, I'll have a glass of ink!". A |
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06 Feb 02 - 09:17 PM (#644228) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Metchosin Me too Amos, and the only one I remember is.....I warm so easy so....Dance Me Loose. |
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06 Feb 02 - 09:17 PM (#644229) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Cap't Bob Thanks Amos, right after I clicked the SUBMIT button I realized that I probably should have worded the request a bit differently. The Monkey and the Owl sounds like that could be a rather interesting song. I'm going to an open mic session this Friday evening armed only with a ukulele. Wish me luck. Cap't Bob |
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06 Feb 02 - 10:46 PM (#644268) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Cap't Bob I finally found the correct title for the song. It goes by the name: "The Thousand Islands Song" (Oh Florence) I also found a short audio clip that goes: ...if we had only met down on the Isle of Capri Now I just can't find the place you marked on the post card, call the Navy and Coast Guard, where oh where can you be. I must not take a nap, gotta watch the map, that was island 793, row from shore to shore, knock on every door.... Cap't Bob |
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07 Feb 02 - 06:50 AM (#644411) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: nutty Short snatch of lyrics and great audio clip here....... THOUSAND ISLANDS SONG |
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07 Feb 02 - 01:39 PM (#644640) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Cap't Bob Thanks nutty, if I keep getting a piece here and a piece there maybe I'll be able to hook it all together. That is a nice clip, it's too bad they didn't finish the song. Cap't Bob |
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07 Feb 02 - 05:31 PM (#644795) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Irish sergeant Itersting. Don't hear many people doing Arhur Godfrey's stuff now a days. Hope you find the rest Cap't Bob, Neil |
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08 Feb 02 - 06:11 PM (#645584) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Jim Dixon There's a CD in print right now called "Best of Arthur Godfrey: The Old Redhead" Collectors' Choice Music #177. Here are the contents, according to the All Music Guide: 1. Too Fat Polka (I Don't Want Her, You Can... (MacLeah/Richardson) - 3:01 2. A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid (Johnson/Razat) - 2:51 3. Slap 'Er Down Again, Pau (Arnold/Asherman/Cornett) - 2:57 4. The Thousand Islands Love Song (Oh... (Hillard/Sigman) - 2:44 5. California Is Wonderful (If You're a... (David/Hoffman/Livingston) - 2:52 6. I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover (Dixon/Woods) - 2:47 7. All Right, Louie, Drop the Gun (Carter/Johnson) - 3:08 8. Go to Sleep, Go to Sleep, Go to Sleep (Cahn/Spielman) - 3:21 9. Gone Fishin' (Kenny/Kenny) - 2:31 10. C'est Tout (That's All) (Dorsey/Elmer/Geva-Ayers) - 3:00 11. The Thing (Grean) - 2:26 12. I Like the Wide Open Spaces (Foster/Murray/Wick) - 2:38 13. Love Is the Reason (Fields/Schwartz) - 2:52 14. Slow Poke (King/Price/Stewart) - 2:36 15. Dance Me Loose (Erwin/Howard) - 2:48 16. Exactly Like You (Fields/McHugh) - 1:55 17. (We Grow) Too Soon Old-Und Too Late Shmart (Drake/Shirt) - 2:25 18. The Humour Is on Me Now (Hayward) - 2:01 19. Sidewalks of New York (Balke/Lawlor) - 2:31 20. Seventy-Six Trombones (Wilson) - 2:36 21. Pale Potomac Moon (Godfrey) - 2:26 22. Young at Heart (Leigh/Richards) - 2:15 A few of these are fairly familiar and several more have intriguing titles. By the way, as much as I admire AMG for being a source of wonderful information like this, I must admit that some things I see there are totally bogus. F'rinstance, it classifies the above album as "Rock." Then under the heading "Similar/Related Albums" it lists Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, and Tracy Chapman! |
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14 Feb 02 - 10:08 AM (#649915) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Uncle_DaveO Then there's Walt Kelly's Pogo song: Row, row, Rover both Dave Oesterreich |
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19 Feb 02 - 09:13 PM (#653737) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: open mike I thought of the "big words" version: of the round-- propel, propel, propel your craft placidly down the liquid solution, with alacrity, with alacrity, with alacrity, existance is but an illusion....
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27 Feb 02 - 12:00 AM (#658746) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Jim Dixon I listened to the audio clip which Nutty provided the link to above, and transcribed this much. Unfortunately, it didn't help me find the lyrics on the 'Net.
THE THOUSAND ISLANDS SONG
I left the one I love on one of the Thousand Islands |
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13 Apr 03 - 03:34 PM (#932533) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Nigel Parsons One recently heard playground rhyme from my (15y.o.) daughter: "Row Row Row your boat Gently down the stream If you see a crocodile Don't forget to scream Aaaargh!" Nigel |
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13 Apr 03 - 04:19 PM (#932559) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: GUEST The original lyrics are: Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream. Jim McLean |
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14 Apr 03 - 09:05 AM (#933048) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Vixen Then there's Latin... Barcam remiga Lente in aqua Hilare Hilare Hilare Hilare Somne est vita Which isn't a literal translation, of course, but close! V |
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14 Apr 03 - 07:37 PM (#933519) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Joe_F It is, of course, a round -- and may be sung simultaneously with at least two other rounds, "Frere Jacques" and "Three Blind Mice". Thirteen-part harmony! |
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15 Apr 03 - 12:30 AM (#933673) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat From: Padre I learned the Latin as: Duc, duc, remus duc, Flumine secundo Viviter, viviter, viviter, viviter Omnes est somnino Padre |
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15 Apr 03 - 06:02 AM (#933784) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: The Walrus I'm surprised nobody has quoted the version from "Blackadder Goes Forth": "Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream, Belt off, trousers down Isn't life a scream," Walrus |
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15 Apr 03 - 07:25 AM (#933823) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: Little Robyn Or the kids version - Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream, Push the teacher overboard and Listen to her scream! |
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15 Apr 03 - 07:36 AM (#933828) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: GUEST,Raggytash Row row row your boat gently down a stream ha ha fooled ya I'm a submarine |
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15 Apr 03 - 09:09 AM (#933902) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: GUEST Or the highbrow one. Propell, propell, propell your craft Placidly down the liquid solution. Happily, happily, happily, Existence is but a delusion. Dave |
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15 Apr 03 - 07:30 PM (#934329) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: running.hare "Rock, rock, rock, your boat Gently to the shore If you see a lion there Don't forget to Roar Raaargh!" |
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15 Apr 03 - 08:06 PM (#934344) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: running.hare Kookaburra sits on the railway track along comes a train and squashes him flat Kookaburra sits on the 'lectric wire Jumping up & down with his pants on fire |
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15 Apr 03 - 09:30 PM (#934383) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: TIA Here's some fun. Sing the original over and over, but each time, leave off the last word from the time before. The ending always gets a big laugh (you'll have to try it). Can't drive more than 40 minutes without the kids requesting that one. |
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15 Apr 03 - 09:34 PM (#934387) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: TIA Fun with Babelfish...here's the German (sort of): Reihe, Reihe, rudern Ihr Boot leicht hinunter den Strom. Merrily merrily merrily merrily Leben ist aber ein Traum. |
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16 Apr 03 - 04:10 AM (#934541) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: Mark Cohen Flip Breskin of Bellingham, Washington taught me to sing it backwards: Dream is but a life Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Stream the down gently Boat your row, row, row You sing the melody backwards, too. That is, each syllable has the same pitch as it does in the original song, although the meter follows the words. (On the last line, for example, "Boat your" is a dotted eighth-sixteenth on the fourth beat of the measure, and "row, row, row" are four quarter notes on the first 3 beats, ending with a quarter rest. Get it?) Aloha, Mark |
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16 Apr 03 - 07:42 AM (#934626) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: Nigel Parsons Mark: unfortunately you've been taught the wrong first line, it should be: "Dream a but is life" CHEERS Nigel |
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17 Apr 03 - 05:18 AM (#935283) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: Mark Cohen Sharp eyes, Nigel! Sharper than my fingers--I typed it wrong. Aloha, Mark |
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17 Apr 03 - 10:01 AM (#935388) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: GUEST,Ayatolla A none aquatic version: Roll, roll, roll a joint, Twist it at the end, Light it up and have a drag And pass it to a friend. |
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18 Apr 03 - 02:40 AM (#935818) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: GUEST,terilu and the anti-exercise one: row row row the boat on the work-out floor exercising on machines is such a dreadful bore and mow mow mow the lawn keep it clipped too short fill the air with noxious fumes and treat it like a sport |
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18 Apr 03 - 03:54 AM (#935833) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: Cluin The frustrated songwriter muppet on Sesame Street years ago: Drive, Drive, Drive your car, Gently down the street... No! No! No1 I'l NEVER get it right! *crashes forehead down on the piano keys* |
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22 Apr 04 - 08:00 AM (#1167812) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: masato sakurai One note differs in the original sheet music titled "Row Your Boat" in The Franklin Square Song Collection, No. 1 (1881, p. 69). X:1 T:Row Your Boat M:6/8 L:1/8 C:E.O. Lyte B:The Franklin Square Song Collection, No.1 (1881, p. 69) K:D D3 D3|D2 E F3|F2 F F2 G|A3-A3| w:Row, row, row your boat, Gent-ly down the stream; d d d A A A|F F F D D D|A2 G F2 E|D3-D3|] w:Mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly; Life is but a dream. |
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22 Apr 04 - 08:04 AM (#1167818) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: LindsayInWales Row row row your boat Genrly down the stream Petticoats up and trousers down Isn't life a scream Row row row your boat Oars are in the rowlocks Merrily merriloy merrily merrily Life's a load of bowlocks |
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22 Apr 04 - 01:13 PM (#1168148) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: open mike as for the reversing of the song i just realized that my computer's built in sound recorder has a "reverse" feature what was that beatle's song that was suppose to contain some secret message when played backwards? I am the Walrus?? KOo KOo Ka Joob! |
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22 Apr 04 - 05:16 PM (#1168354) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: Big Jim from Jackson Bob Gibson recorded a great version of this song and got the audience to sing it as a round. Then he "added" some non-traditional verse---I think they may have been writen by Shel Silverstein. The all centered around environmental polution. Very funny stuff. "Row, row, row your boat Gently through the muck. Merrily, merrily, merrily, And I don't give a --- darn!" |
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15 Jan 06 - 07:14 PM (#1649132) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row, Row, Row Your Boat parodies From: GUEST,Jules Row row row your boat Gently down the river If you see a polar bear Dont forget to shiver |
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15 Jan 06 - 07:43 PM (#1649152) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row, Row, Row Your Boat parodies From: autolycus I've recently wanted to know the origin of the original. Does anyone know? |
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16 Jan 06 - 05:01 PM (#1649728) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row, Row, Row Your Boat parodies From: autolycus What I mean is,is there a composer for the original Row, row, row your boat, or is it a folksong, or ......? |
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16 Jan 06 - 05:53 PM (#1649763) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row, Row, Row Your Boat parodies From: EBarnacle When in my dear wasted yout', I learned the version that Dave the Guest presents as: Propel, Propel, Propel your craft Rapidly down the liquid solution; Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically Existence is but an illusion. |
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16 Jan 06 - 06:07 PM (#1649773) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row, Row, Row Your Boat parodies From: The Fooles Troupe autolycus try the 'origin' thread near the top of the page. |
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16 Jan 06 - 07:01 PM (#1649822) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row, Row, Row Your Boat parodies From: autolycus Foolestroupe Thanks. Still finding my way round. A. |
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05 Nov 06 - 05:07 PM (#1876991) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: Azizi Here's two contemporary kid's versions of "Row Row Row Your Boat" that were sent to my website www.cocojams.com "We used to sing this one in Milwaukee, WI in the late 70's: Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Throw your teacher overboard and listen to her scream. 5 days later, floatin' down the Delaware Chewin' on her underwear Can't afford another pair" -Kelly 5/23/2006 **** "Row Row Row ur boat gently down the stream throw ur teacher overboard just to make her scream. 5 days later she is chewing on her under wear wishing she had another pair. 10 days later she is eating by a polar bear. That is what made the polar bear die. E haw! I think that is so funny. We sing that when go on field trips." -Anonymous; 10/25/2006 |
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06 Nov 06 - 04:48 AM (#1877261) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: DoctorJug After the Zeebrugge disaster, when a roll-on roll-off (RO-RO)ferry went down, Private Eye printed something like this: RO-RO-RO your boat Swiftly under water Ferrily ferrily ferrily ferry The firm gets off manslaughter. |
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06 Nov 06 - 07:22 AM (#1877330) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: GUEST Bow, bow, bow your note Gently down the string, Wearily, wearily, wearily, wearily, I can't play this thing |
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13 Jul 10 - 08:17 PM (#2944617) Subject: Lyr Add: THOUSAND ISLANDS SONG (Arthur Godfrey) From: Cap't Bob I finally found the old 78 recording in the attic above the garage. A good friend had a 78 turntable and recorded it for me in mp3 format. If anyone is still interested: (Words in brackets were sung by others) THE THOUSAND ISLAND SONG As sung by Arthur Godfrey Row, row, row your boat, up the river St. Lawrence, Hollering, hollering, hollering, hollering, hollering for Florence. I left the one I love on one of the Thousand Islands. (Row, row, row your boat.) But unfortunately I can't remember which one. So I row, row, row, row up the river St. Lawrence, And I'm hollering Florence. Oh, where can you be? (Where, oh, where, where, oh, where can she be?) I wouldn't be so lost up here on the Thousand Islands. (Row, row, row your boat.) If we only had met down on the Isle of Capri. Now I just can't find the place you marked on the post card. Call the Navy and Coast Guard. Oh, where, where can you be? (Where, oh, where, where, oh, where can she be?) Mustn't take a nap. Gotta watch the map. That was Island 793, Row from shore to shore. Knock on every door. How many Thousand Islands can there be? I better find you soon 'cause I see a thousand row boats (Row, row your boat.) And the fellers inside look mighty lonesome to me. When they row, row, row, row up the River St. Lawrence, They're all hollering "Florence, oh, where can you be?" (Row, row, row your boat up the River St. Lawrence Hollering, hollering, hollering, hollering, hollering for Florence) I better find you soon 'cause I see a thousand row boats (Row, row, row your boat.) And the fellers inside look mighty lonesome to me. When they row, row, row, row up the River St. Lawrence, They're all hollering "Florence, oh, where can you be?" (Row, row, row your boat.) Hey Florence, (Row, row your boat.) Hey Flowie, you're harder to find than Chloe! Cap't Bob |
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06 Feb 11 - 10:03 AM (#3089765) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: row row row your boat parodies From: GUEST,GJP Wow! I've looked for these lyrics for years. Thanx! |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:37 PM (#3109276) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row Row Row Your Boat (parodies) From: GUEST,Marri Thank you! This is one of those songs that pops into my head anytime I hear the name Lawrence or Florance but I could only remember two lines of it. Now I can sing the whole song! I'm sure my family will want to thank you, too. |
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07 Apr 11 - 05:51 PM (#3130858) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row Row Row Your Boat (parodies) From: Floksnog During my deprived (not really!) childhood we where submitted to greasy margarine rather than lovely butter, it being considered 'healthier' at the time - hence I used to end this rhyme not - Life is butter dream but Life is margarine My wife dose about five versions of this with my daughter involving different animals and sorts of water course, including the crocodile/stream/scream one above. The only one I can remember now involves a Polar Bear, a river and not forgetting to shiver (BRRRRRR!!) Sorry - done of that was to do with the original post! |
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22 Jun 11 - 06:27 PM (#3174840) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row Row Row Your Boat (parodies) From: GUEST,Neil A. Anderson Start, start, start the car, Chugga, chugga, chug. Twist the key and start your engine, in a Bentley or a Bug! |
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22 Jun 11 - 06:29 PM (#3174841) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row Row Row Your Boat (parodies) From: GUEST,Neil A. Anderson Pull, pull the stops, Play on all the pipes! Verrily, verrily, verrily, verrily, Silence all my gripes! |
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18 Aug 11 - 06:20 PM (#3209121) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row Row Row Your Boat (parodies) From: GUEST,Goldengirl My father used to sing this song: I lost my love on one of the Thousand Islands But, unfortunately I can't remember which So I go hollering Florence Up the river St Lawrence Oh Florence, where can you be? |
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19 Aug 11 - 12:27 AM (#3209229) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Row Row Row Your Boat (parodies) From: LadyJean We sang, "Row row row your boat, gently dow n the stream. Throw your teacher overboard and listen to her scream." King Friday XIII sang "Propel your craft" on Mister Rogers Neighborhood. |