"Michael row your boat ashore"

From the ORIGINAL Highwaymen. Recorded on 05-05-07 at Spearfish, South Dakota.

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Entertainment

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• Folk-campfire-music

[chevyvictor]

We use to sing this in Primary skool back when i was 5yrs old LOL. Things have changed, all Politically correct now and not allowed as condoned religious.

[JohnnySplattWadd]

Indeed chevyvictor. This video serves as a living reminder of the better world we used to live in.

[zinpgh]

Praise the Lord for the Highwaymen, still singing and going strong. Well done.

[aykcroid]

Some say this is a German folk song pre-dating American civil war. Anyone with info on that?

[TheArizonaghost]

one of the member...Bob Burnett has passed away R.I.P.

[MrDhurandhar]

I had heard this song a long time ego and hoped to find on the u tube,The time I am referring to is 1966 when i was at Saint Joshephs school near Coonoor in Tamilnadu.

[finloy]

It's just to good.

The whistle!

Majestic!

[Sugaree1956]

They have voices sweeter than any sody water. God Bless Them..

[furtrader19]

Mr Gil Robbins passed away today..God Speed....

[furtrader19]

Mr

. Robbins passed away today..God Speed....

[xdaphnejx]

@cypruschick This song originally appeared in an 1867 collection called "Slave Songs of the United States". It was heard and notated by Charles Pickard Ware on a boat to Port Royal (Sea Islands). Oar crews (slaves) from different plantations would make up songs that no other boat crew was singing, and this was one of them.

[xdaphnejx]

This song originally appeared in an 1867 collection called "Slave Songs of the United States". It was heard and notated by Charles Pickard Ware on a boat to Port Royal (Sea Islands). Oar crews (slaves) from different plantations would make up songs that no other boat crew was singing, and this was one of them.

[Tonithenightowl]

I'm pretty sure the 3d guy from the left is Gil Robbins, father of actor Tim Robbins. I can see the resemblance very easily.