Row row row your boat

Good Morning all I hope life is treating you well

For this mornings post I am going to share some shots of a group out rowing that I see often mostly if I take a morning walk on West beach I always seem to see them

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Whenever I see them out rowing there are a couple of things that come to mind, first the childrens lullaby Row Row Row your boat

Do you know it?

“Row, Row, Row Your Boat” is a folk song that was penned by American author and teacher Eliphalet Oram Lyte and was first published in 1852.

It has has just one stanza, with four lines:

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream
and thats the version I know or remember from my childhood and from singing ( badly I must say lets just say singing is for sure not one of my talents)
But I found some other versions online such as the ones below:

Row, row, row your boat
Gently up the creek
If you see a little mouse
Don’t forget to squeak!

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
If you see a crocodile
Don’t forget to scream!

Row, row, row your boat
Gently to the shore
If you see a lion
Don’t forget to roar!

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the second thing I think after having seen them out just about every morning I visit West beach no matter what the conditions are such as the day I took the photo above and below the windy was really strong those days and the water was so choppy but they were still out there rowing away

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