Row your skiff, sonny

The Ram Island River runs north and south

from the safety of the harbor

to the wild, wild, waters of the

Woods Hole Passage

[Chorus:]

Row, Row, your
Skiff..., Skiff,
Sonny
Row, your
Skiff, Skiff,
Sonny
[repeat]

When you're out in the Hole

You better stay to the side

Or the ferry's wake will swamp you

And the standing wave will dump you

On the incoming tide

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When the wind blows towards the yacht club

And the waves no longer foam

You can take you time clamming

You're just one oar-stroke from home

[Added lines, with slow rhythm:]

Long long ago,

Long long ago

[Resume verse:]

When the ice was up on Boston

and the sea was far away

There were prairie grasses growing

And a might river flowing

Out in Buzzard's Bay

They were hunting woolly mammoths

Where we catch stripers today

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