Row Row Row Your Boat Cifras

You ever actually played the song? It's the first one I teach. You gotta have that 2nd chord. ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT 4/4 D / / / Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream / / A D merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.

This is perfectly acceptable for a young beginning student. G chord sounds fine. Row Row Row is the very first song that I teach, and I too, use ONLY the G chord. As I said, perfectly acceptable for a beginner. I add in the additional chord later. Most kids like to start playing as quickly as possible. I start the younger ones out using only partial chords, and throw in row row row the very first day. If you are teaching teens or adults, then you can adhere to the full chords and wait a couple of weeks or so before they learn an actual song. Young children need that "instant gratification", and the way this song is done gives them that. You have to work around younger children, or they will give up quickly. Make it fun for them and you've got a kid who grows up learning and loving music. As a teacher, lowellhein, you should know that.

Idk what everyone in this comment section is thinking, but this song can only function as a round- and it is a round- if both lines have the same chord progression in the same rhythm; it is a simple children’s song, it is only G G D G, on both lines, and if you don’t believe me you can sing the Arpeggio that’s written right into the song where you all want to put a nonexistent C chord and hear that it outlines G. Spend less time making this round complicated and more time adding lyrics to keep the kids busy longer