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by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Translation © by Paolo Montanari
Dark brown is the river
Language: English
Our translations: ITA
Dark brown is the river, Golden is the sand. It flows along for ever, With trees on either hand. Green leaves a-floating, Castles of the foam, Boats of mine a-boating - Where will all come home? On goes the river And out past the mill, Away down the valley, Away down the hill. Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Where go the boats?", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Mark Andrews (1875 - 1939), "Where go the boats?", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Where go the boats?", published 1958 [ 2-part chorus and piano ], from Four innocent airs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Where go the boats?", 1917 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marshall H. Barnes (b. 1921), "Where go the boats?", published 1970 [ SA chorus and piano ], from Three songs to children [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gladys Mary Cohen (1907 - 1996), as Guirne Javal, "Where go the boats", published 1956 [ two-part chorus ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Crawford , "Where go the boats?", published 1915 [ voice and piano ], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Falk , "Where go the boats?", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carlisle Floyd (b. 1926), "Where go the boats?", published 1967 [ unison chorus and piano ], from Two Stevenson songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854 - 1927), "Where go the boats?", op. 67 (Child Lyrics) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Groocock , "Dark brown is the river", published 1957 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from A Child's Garden [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), "Where go the boats?", op. 29 no. 4, published 1903 [ voice and piano ], from Four Stevenson Songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Marjorie Helyer , "Where go the boats?", published 1957 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anne Gannet Stratton Miller Holden (1887 - 1977), "Boats of mine", published 1919 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917 - 1995), "Where go the boats?", published 1966 [ voice or unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Houston Macdonald , "Where go the boats?", published 1895 [ unison chorus and piano ], in Thirty Unison Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jan Masséus (1913 - 1999), "Where go the boats?", op. 47a no. 4 (1974), from My kingdom, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Stanley Muschamp , "Where go the boats?", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "Dark brown is the river", <<1901 [ voice and piano ], from Three songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "Where go the boats?", published 1910 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Where go the boats?", op. 5 no. 3, published 1914, rev. 1945 [ voice and piano ], from Four Child Songs, no. 3, Chappell [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Marvin Radnor , "Where go the boats?", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Where Go The Boats?", op. 97 (1946) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Teresa del Riego (c1876 - 1968), "Where go the boats?", published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from Children's pictures [sung text not yet checked]
- by Beatrice Macgowan Scott , "Where go the boats?", published 1933 [ unaccompanied voice ], in New Universal School Music Series: Rhythm Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eleanor Smith , "Where go the boats?", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Song Pictures [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Where go the boats?", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from The Twins' Tune Book, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Where go the boats?", op. 30 no. 5, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garland of Songs, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eric Harding Thiman (1900 - 1975), "Where go the boats?" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eric Harding Thiman (1900 - 1975), "Where go the boats?", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Muriel Thomas , "Where go the boats?", published 1957 [ unison chorus of medium voices and piano ], from Four songs for children, also set in Welsh, translation by Wil Ifan [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vally Weigl, née Pick (c1894 - 1982), "Where go the boats?" [ medium voice, recorder, and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Patrick Williams (1905 - 1985), "Where go the boats?", published 1963 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931 - 2003), "Where go the boats?", published 1968 [ high voice and piano ], from From a child's garden, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Luigi Zaninelli (b. 1932), "Where go the boats?", published 1962 [ SSA chorus and instrumental ensemble ], from The world is so full [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "Dove vanno le barche?", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 69
Dove vanno le barche?
Language: Italian (Italiano) after the English
Il fiume è marrone, la spiaggia è d'oro. Scorre per sempre con degli alberi a destra e sinistra. Foglie verdi galleggiano, castelli di schiuma, le mie barchette veleggiano. Dove arriveranno? Il fiume va passa oltre il mulino giù per la valle giù per la collina Giù per il fiume, a cento miglia o più, altri bambini porteranno le mie barche a riva.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from English to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2010 by Paolo Montanari, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Where go the boats?", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
This text was added to the website: 2010-04-05
Line count: 16
Word count: 62