The keel row
Language: English
As I came thro' Sandgate, thro' Sandgate, thro' Sandgate; as I cam thro' Sandgate, I heard a lassie sing: Wee! may the keel row, the keel row, the keel row, weel may the keel row that my laddie's in. Oh, wha's like ma Johnnie, sae leish, sae blithe, sae bonny? He's foremost 'mang the mony keel lads o'coaly Tyne. He'll set and row sae tightly, or in the dance - sae sprightly - he'll cut and shuffle slightly; 'tis true - were he not mine. He wears a blue bonnet, blue bonnet, blue bonnet; he wears a blue bonnet, a dimple in his chin. And weel may the keel row, the keel row, the keel row, weel may the keel row that my laddie's in.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Keel Row", op. 444 (1955) [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Gillies Whittaker (1876 - 1944), "The keel row", arrangement [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: John Versmoren
This text was added to the website: 2004-07-11
Line count: 24
Word count: 125