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Rowing in a straight line

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 03:58pm on 21/04/2013 under , ,
One major downside to "Row, row, row your boat" having verses in recent British usage is that it isn't ever sung as a round in local baby groups.

On the other hand, the emphasis just generally with most these song/rhyme groups is in teaching children from an early age to have common cultural capital, rather than actual musicality or an interest in music. The sort of thing that might (should the song ever come up, which it thus far hasn't) lead them to understand why the "Old Lady" in Little Inferno is subtitled "Perhaps she'll die."
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posted by [identity profile] kashmera.livejournal.com at 11:07pm on 21/04/2013
I am now remembering Krk, Spock and McCoy singing 'Row row row your boat' at the end of the fifth Start Trek movie....

I don't know which verses you mean for that song - the only bits I know are the chorus.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 11:10pm on 21/04/2013
I should have said, this post was a followup to this one: http://owlfish.livejournal.com/1225532.html

Screaming when you see a crocodile is an inevitable second verse to the second in all local children's groups, something which appears to be a development in the last c. 20 years.
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posted by [identity profile] kashmera.livejournal.com at 11:17pm on 21/04/2013
Oh right didn't see that one - I'd never heard of all those other versions.

For me, not singing as a round takes all the fun out of it...
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posted by [identity profile] gillpolack.livejournal.com at 07:26am on 22/04/2013
We'd sing it as a round when we felt like it... but vary the version. We were greedy children and wanted it all...
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posted by [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com at 08:03am on 22/04/2013
I don't remember learning it until I was a girl Guide (so 11+). It wasn't one of the nursery rhymes on Listen With Mother when I was small. But we always sang it as a round.
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posted by [identity profile] momist.livejournal.com at 08:13am on 22/04/2013
. . . and there was me thinking that singing nursery rhymes was JUST for fun . . .
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