Where go the boats?

Dark brown is the river,
Golden is the sand.
It flows along for ever,
With trees on either hand.

Green leaves a-floating,
Castles of the foam,
Boats of mine a-boating -
Where will all come home?

On goes the river
And out past the mill,
Away down the valley,
Away down the hill.

Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Where go the boats?", from A Child's Garden of Verses, published 1885

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Mark Andrews (1875-1939) , "Where go the boats?", published 1911 [voice and piano], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse", no. ?
by Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) , "Where go the boats?", published 1958 [two-part chorus and piano], from Four innocent airs, no. ?
by Marshall H. Barnes (1921-) , "Where go the boats?", published 1970 [SA chorus and piano], from Three songs to children, no. ?
by Gladys M. Cohen (1907-1996) , "Where go the boats", published 1956 [two-part song], under the pseudonym Guirne Javal
by Thomas Crawford , "Where go the boats?", published 1915 [voice and piano], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 2.
by Edward Falk , "Where go the boats?", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Carlisle Floyd (1926-) , "Where go the boats?", published 1967 [unison voices and piano], from Two Stevenson songs, no. ?
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854-1927) , "Where go the boats?", op. 67 (Child Lyrics) no. 1.
by Joseph Groocock , "Dark brown is the river", published 1957 [SSA chorus and piano], from A Child's Garden, no. ?
by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937) , "Where go the boats?", published 1903. [voice and piano]
by Marjorie Helyer , "Where go the boats?", published 1957. [unison voices and piano]
by Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917-1995) , "Where go the boats?", published 1966. [voice or unison voices and piano]
by R. Houston Macdonald , "Where go the boats?", published 1895 [unison voices and piano], from Thirty Unison Songs
by Jan Masseus , "Where go the boats?", op. 47a no. 4 (1974), from My kingdom, no. 4.
by Anne Stratton Miller , "Boats of mine", published 1919. [voice and piano]
by Stanley Muschamp , "Where go the boats?", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Ethelbert Nevin (1862-1901) , "Dark brown is the river", <<1901 [voice and piano], from Three songs, no. 3.
by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878-1937) , "Where go the boats?", published 1910. [voice and piano]
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953) , "Where go the boats?", op. 5 (Four child songs) no. 3, published 1914. [voice and piano]
by Marvin Radnor , "Where go the boats?", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Teresa del Riego (c1876-1968) , "Where go the boats?", published 1909 [voice and piano], from Children's pictures, no. ?
by Beatrice Macgowan Scott , "Where go the boats?", published 1933 [unaccompanied voice], from New Universal School Music Series: Rhythm Songs
by Eleanor Smith , "Where go the boats?", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Song Pictures, no. ?
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "Where go the boats?", op. 30 no. 5, published 1892 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garland of Songs, no. 5.
by Eric Harding Thiman (1900-1975) , "Where go the boats?"
by Eric Harding Thiman (1900-1975) , "Where go the boats?", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Muriel Thomas , "Where go the boats?", published 1957 [medium unison voices and piano], from Four songs for children, no. ?, also set in Welsh, translation by Wil Ifan
by Vally Weigl, née Pick (1894?89?-1982) , "Where go the boats?" [medium voice, recorder, and piano]
by Patrick Williams , "Where go the boats?", published 1963. [unison voices and piano]
by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931-) , "Where go the boats?", published 1968 [high voice and piano], from From a child's garden, no. 3.
by Luigi Zaninelli (1932-) , "Where go the boats?", published 1962 [SSA chorus and instrumental ensemble], from The world is so full, no. ?

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