Boat-Song (Frederic Hymen Cowen)

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• (Posted 2023-10-06)  CPDL #76106:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 656 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Boat-Song
Composer: Frederic Hymen Cowen
Lyricist: Edward Oxenford
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1891 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Row, row, gently row,
On the water’s silvery flow!
Timing all your bending oars,
As ye pass the smiling shores!

One by one new beauties rise,
Charming all your hearts and eyes,
Flowerets fair and stately trees,
Trembling ’neath the summer breeze!

Row, gently row, row, gently row,
As the silvery waters flow,
Breathing music soft and low!
Row, gently row, row, row.

Row, row, gently row,
Blithely singing as ye go;
Echoes all repeat your song,
As ye urge the boat along!

Water-lilies, white and gold,
Blossom that ye may behold!
Rippling wavelets rise and fall,
Sweetly harmonizing all!

Row, gently row, row, gently row,
As the silvery waters flow,
Breathing music soft and low!
Row, gently row, row, row.