Row Row Row your boat....."Life is but a dream" ???

[EngFan]

Dear All,

The very popular kid song "Row Row Row Your Boat", I can understand the lyrics except "Life is but a dream", please explain it to me the meaning. Thanks!



Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.


EngFan

[charliedeut]

Hi,

"Life is but a dream" means that life is nothing more than a dream, life is just a dream.

charliedeut

[EngFan]

Thanks. In daily life, can we say life is but a dream?

[5jj]

We could, but people don't normally go around saying it.

[Rover_KE]

Thanks. In daily life, can we say life is but a dream?

Hardly — for many of us it's a nightmare.

The writer of the song needed a rhyme for 'stream'. He could have written 'Life is such a scream' and been equally unintelligible.

Rover

EDIT: Rats! Six minutes late again! This is getting annoying.

[emsr2d2]

Hardly — for many of us it's a nightmare.

The writer of the song needed a rhyme for 'stream'. He could have written 'Life is such a scream' and been equally unintelligible.

Rover

EDIT: Rats! Six minutes late again! This is getting annoying.

Tap tap tap your thumbs
Faster on the keys
Minutes minutes minutes minutes
Sixes will be threes.

[5jj]

Tap tap tap your thumbs
Faster on the keys
typo, typo, typo, typo,
Heed my warning, plaese!