
Lyrics
(Folk song)
1. Sailing on the ocean, the tide rolls high,
Sailing on the ocean, the tide rolls high,
Sailing on the ocean, the tide rolls high,
You can find a real good friend by and by.
2. Got me a real good friend, stay all day…
We don’t care what the others say.
3. Eight in a boat and it won’t go ’round…
You can leave the real good friend you just found.
Singing Game
Formation: Students stand in a circle with 4 students forming a small circle in the middle.
Verse 1 = Students in the outer circle join hands and circle clockwise while the 4 students in the middle join hands and walk counterclockwise.
Verse 2 = All students drop hands and walk counterclockwise. Each student in the middle finds a student in the outer circle near them and they walk around the circle side by side. (They will be partners.)
Verse 3 = The partners (8 of them) join hands in the middle of the circle and walk counterclockwise while the outer circle walks clockwise. On the word “leave,” the original 4 students take a place in the outer circle.
See also
- Subject: water / sailing / friends
- Activities: circle singing games
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsl
YouTube
- Song with chords in 2 keys and Solfege (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song

