Row Row Row your boat is a kids nursery rhyme, kids love alot its a wonderful song to hear, br br br Row, row, row your boat, br Gently down the stream. br Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, br Life is but a dream. br br br "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song. br It can also be an action nursery rhyme, whose singers sit opposite one another and row forwards br and backwards with joined hands. br br br It has been suggested that the song may have originally arisen out of American minstrelsy. br The earliest printing of the song is from 1852, when the lyrics were published with similar br lyrics to those used today, but with a very different tune. It was reprinted again two years br later with the same lyrics and another tune. The modern tune was first recorded with the lyrics in 1881.