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Music › C major › Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Row, Row, Row Your Boat is written in C major, with 2 chords: C and G7. Tap Fits a small voice and I’ll move the whole song to where you can sing it.
The tune goes from C4 to C5: try “Fits a small voice”.
CRow,row,rowyourboat,
CGentlydownthestream.
CMerrily,merrily,merrily,merrily,
G7LifeisbutaCdream.
Traditional American song (1852). Public domain. peabody.kids/music
Row, Row, Row Your Boat was printed in America in 1852. The tune sung today came in 1881, in the Franklin Square Song Collection, credited to Eliphalet Oram Lyte. It is a round: a second group starts when the first reaches 'Gently', and the two fit together.
Words: American, printed 1852. Tune: Eliphalet Oram Lyte, in the Franklin Square Song Collection (New York, 1881). Both were printed before 1931, so the song is in the public domain in the United States: anyone may sing it, print it and share it. Peabody wrote out the tune and the chords for this page. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row,_Row,_Row_Your_Boat.
The tune runs from C4 to C5 in C major. For a class from Pre-K to 2nd grade, try C major (C, G7), which keeps it inside C4 to C5.
On a ukulele: F major (F, C7). On a guitar: D major (D, A7).
The sing-along plays the tune and lights each word as it is sung.
Look up any chord in the Chord Finder, or see every song in C major.
Checked 2026-10-31.
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