Bells & Xylophone Medium

Row, Row, Row Your Boat Xylophone Notes with Letters

Letters and boomwhacker colors for bells, xylophone or boomwhackers, with the words under each note. Starts C C C D E E.

Key
C major
Range
C4–C5
Length
27 notes
Melody
1881, public domain

The notes and words

Key: C major, white keys only, so every note is on a C major set.

CRow,Crow,CrowDyourEboat,EGent-ElyEdownFtheGstream;

C′Mer-C′ri-C′ly,Gmer-Gri-Gly,

Emer-Eri-Ely,Cmer-Cri-Cly;

GLifeFisEbutDaCdream.

Boomwhacker colors (C major set), always with the letter. Maker’s color list.
  • Cred
  • Dorange
  • Eyellow
  • Flight green
  • Gaqua
  • C′ (high)red
70%

Staff notation

Play-along guide: the melody played by your browser’s bells sound. The lit note follows the music. Print large notes

About this song

Melody
Eliphalet Oram Lyte (1842–1913), 1881
Words
Traditional, 1881 (first verse shown)
Public domain
Melody 1881, words 1881: first published before 1931.
Source
Franklin Square Song Collection (Harper & Brothers, 1881), p. 69, “Row Your Boat” (round, credited to E. O. Lyte) (1881)

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