Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Composer unknown · American traditional · C major · 4/4 · 96 BPM · 8 bars · Children’s songs

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Row, Row, Row Your Boat sits in Children’s songs, written in C major. It uses 2 chords across 8 bars, at about 96 BPM.

Chords in this song

CG7

C

G7

Chord chart

Chord chart
1C···
2··G7C

How to sing it

Eight bars, two chords, a round. Stay on C through the rowing and the merrily, step to G7 for life is but a, and come home on C for dream. Play it three times and it already feels like people overlapping.

In every key

In every key
KeysChord chart
C major · Written in this keyC · G7 · C
Db majorDb · Ab7 · Db
D majorD · A7 · D
Eb majorEb · Bb7 · Eb
E majorE · B7 · E
F majorF · C7 · F
F# majorF# · C#7 · F#
G majorG · D7 · G
Ab majorAb · Eb7 · Ab
A majorA · E7 · A
Bb majorBb · F7 · Bb
B majorB · F#7 · B

Patterns inside this song

No named pattern sits as a run of chords inside this song.

Why this song is free to play

An American round printed in the 1850s, composer unknown. A mid-19th-century traditional tune is not protected. The 1850s printings were checked by search.

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