Hey, Grant and Martha. I love the new site design. Kudos!
I was just listening to this show and heard the Row, Row, Row Your Boat rendering as:
Propel, propel, propel your craft
Progressively down liquid solution.
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
Existence is but an illusion.
I'm old enough to remember Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from when it was first broadcast. His character King Friday XIII used to sing this quite a bit (but with "softly" instead of "progressively," I believe). I can't find the origin, unfortunately. I always presumed that Mr. Rogers wrote it. But that may not be the case.
Here is a link
< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1wiI9_q-Hw>
It's not Mr. Rogers but they claim to be copying him.
When I was a kid, I learned this variation on the old nursery rhyme:
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was black as soot
And everywhere that Mary went
His sooty foot he put.
I love the way the last line feels when recited. 🙂
Is there a place on this site to see written transcripts of the radio discussion re. The way with words?
I'm afraid not. The cost of having transcripts done is prohibitive.