The Paddle Song

Words & Music:

Traditional Round

 

My paddle's clean and bright,

*Flashing with silver.

Follow the wild goose flight,

Dip, dip and swing.

 

Dip, dip and swing it back.

*Flashing with silver.

Follow the wild goose flight.

Dip, dip and swing.

 

*subsequent parts enter here

 

Correspondent Tony Meanwell reminds me that "at the end of the song, you're supposed to say 'dip, dip & swing' three times".  I remember singing that version as a kid at camp in Tennessee and the version as given above when I went to camp in New Hampshire about 7 years later.

 




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