Boat Song

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Kristin Andreassen

Kristin Andreassen (born 1976/1977) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, old time musician and educator. Currently based in Nashville, Tennessee, she started her music career as a professional clogger with Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble and in the early 2000s joined the folk bands Uncle Earl and Sometymes Why as a vocalist, dancer, songwriter, guitarist. She is known for using body percussion and dance in live performances. In 2007 she released her first solo album, Kiss Me Hello, which was produced by Mark Schatz (Nickel Creek). The opening track "Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes" won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the Children's Category, also becoming a hit on children's radio despite the fact that the ove… more »

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When I was a girl, I wished I was a boy 
I had a dog, I wished it was a horse 
We lived by the freeway, I thought it was the ocean, 
Sounded like a seashell in my sleep in the night 
I would go riding and I would go sailing 
All the while bouncing a ball at the wall 

And I was a gondolier, pushing through Venice 
I was a tour guide of my own heart’s desires 
Over there I’m a painter, over there I’m a builder, 
Over there I’m a cab driver who knows every street 
But I can’t find the bridge, or is it a ferry 
Some way to cross over, some way to connect 
No man is an island, but most of us choose one 
There are islands for bakers and bankers and thieves. 

And you row & row & row your boat on down the baby river 
Row it oh so gently, as though life were but a dream 

For some reason my dreams are all about water 
It replaces the concrete, I can breathe it like air 
Perhaps in a past life, I was a great swimmer 
Or maybe in this life, I’m destined to drown 
I’m destined to choose. So it’s been foretold 
Sure enough, as I’ve chosen, my destiny is unfolding 

Row & row & row your boat on down the baby river 
Row it oh so gently, as though life were but a dream 
But oh, I know, that dreaming is not living 
So many lives there are to land upon, 
The dreams just flow between 

When I am an old man, I’ll wish I was a girl 
I’ll wish I had parents. I’m sure that it’s true 
I will want a tour then of my own heart’s desires 
So many, so varied, all softened with time 
No man is an island, but most of us choose one 
There are islands for hustlers and mothers and kings 
But the fearless explorers, they find secret passageways 
Through melting obstacles. They move up and downstream 

Saying look out for the rocks. Lean into the wind. 
Look into your heart. Look out for your friends. 
Hold fast to the oars. Maybe wait for the full moon. 
Look up at the sky. Look down at your hands. 

And row & row & row your boat on down the baby river 
Row it oh so gently as though life were but a dream 
But you and I know that dreaming is not living 
So many dreams each night to lie upon, 
And one life between the dreams

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