Row Row Row Your Boat

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Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream,
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the brook,
If you catch a little fish
Please let it off the hook

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the creek,
If you see a little mouse
Listen to it squeak

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the river,
If the river gets you wet
Don't forget to shiver

Row, row, row the boat
Gently to the shore,
If you see a lyin' bear
Don't forget to roar

Row, row, row your boat
Watch the water flow,
Rowing's fun but rowing's hard
That is what I know

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the lake,
Don't stand up and rock the boat
That's a big mistake!

Row, row, row your boat
See the water run,
Rowing here and rowing there
Oh we're almost done

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream,
Ha ha fooled ya all
I'm a submarine

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream,
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream


Ref.: Wikipedia article

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Aboard a Boat on a Moonlit Night
by Dai Fugu 1167-1248


Moonlight fills the boat and floods an empty sky
Night air pours across the green and glassy water
Ideas for a poem away in the shadows of the mast
My dream spirit rows to the sound of the scull
Stars are scattered on the jade-colored lake
Wild geese cry out in the water-pepper wind
A few fishing lanterns mark the ancient shore
Dew drips from paulownias on Broken Arch Bridge


~ From "Poems of the Masters", one of the best books of
general translations of Chinese poems into English.