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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOkay, so, Michael rowed the boat ashore. Big deal!
Really, what was so special about rowing the boat ashore. Millions of people all over the world do this every day.
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Okay, so, Michael rowed the boat ashore. Big deal! (Original Post)
Yavin4
Nov 2013
OP
Sister helped to trim the sails. What kind of boat needs sails and oars, anyway?
Arkansas Granny
Nov 2013
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Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)1. Sister helped to trim the sails. What kind of boat needs sails and oars, anyway?
I mean, isn't that a little redundant?
antiquie
(4,299 posts)2. On a windless day...
you have to row and it isn't any fun so maybe that's the big deal?
frogmarch
(12,145 posts)3. Wiki says:
"Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" (or "Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore" or "Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore" or "Michael Row That Gospel Boat" is an African-American spiritual. It was first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island, one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina.[1]
It was sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned the island before the Union navy arrived to enforce a blockade. Charles Pickard Ware, an abolitionist and Harvard graduate who had come to supervise the plantations on St. Helena Island from 1862 to 1865, wrote the song down in music notation as he heard the freedmen sing it. Ware's cousin, William Francis Allen reported in 1863 that while he rode in a boat across Station Creek, the former slaves sang the song as they rowed.[2]
The song was first published in Slave Songs of the United States, by Allen, Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, in 1867.[3]
It was sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned the island before the Union navy arrived to enforce a blockade. Charles Pickard Ware, an abolitionist and Harvard graduate who had come to supervise the plantations on St. Helena Island from 1862 to 1865, wrote the song down in music notation as he heard the freedmen sing it. Ware's cousin, William Francis Allen reported in 1863 that while he rode in a boat across Station Creek, the former slaves sang the song as they rowed.[2]
The song was first published in Slave Songs of the United States, by Allen, Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, in 1867.[3]
rocktivity
(44,555 posts)4. I'm too busy trying to figure out
why drivers 1 through 7 didn't get to take a break.
rocktivity
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)5. hallelujah!
...but I don't know why.