Row, Row, Row Your Boat (String Quartet)

This arrangement contains a traditional version, and 4 variations to Row, Row, Row Your Boat. For each variation there is an activity card that contains ideas for performing to children, or using in the classroom with students. It contains new lyrics for the variations by Fiona Hickie

This is for string quartet. In the Train variation the cello player either tapping on the body of their instrument or playing tom toms.

Variation 1 - An alternate boat version (a slower version reflecting a peaceful river)

Variation 2 - Car (imagine a car beeping along the road) Not fast, but more a convertible with its hood down, out for a drive down the street

Variation 3 - Horse (Out on the plains, plodding along

Variation 4 - Train (Imagine a train leaving the station)

Instrumentation: String Quartet – Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola and Cello

Composer: Eliphalet Oram Lyte

Arranger: Fiona Hickie