Row Row Row Your Boat
Nursery · 1800s · Traditional (American round, published 1852)
Sing Row Row Row Your Boat with pitch feedback
“Row Row Row Your Boat” is transcribed here with its tonic on C4 at 76 bpm in 3 beats to the bar. The 10 notes span C4 to G4 — 7 semitones — which rates Easy to sing, and a full 4-pass session runs about 0:35.
7 semitones as transcribed. The practice room transposes it to sit in your own range.
- One time through
- 0:09 at 76 bpm
- A full session
- 0:35 — 4 passes
- Leaps of a third or more
- 0
Row Row Row Your Boat lyrics, as transcribed here
- Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream
The songbook transcribes the opening phrase rather than the whole song, because 4 tight repetitions of a phrase you can hear yourself improve on beats one distracted run at the full thing.
Origin and copyright status
Traditional American round, in print since 1852 and never under active copyright.
- Attribution
- Traditional (American round, published 1852)
- Language
- English
Every melody in the songbook is public domain, which is why the whole thing can be sung in a browser without a licence. A specific recording or arrangement of the same tune can still be under copyright — this is our own transcription of the melody.
Genre, era and what it drills
Tags describe what the melody asks of a voice, not what it sounds like — “round” is the reason to pick it on a given day.