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A Sailor Went to Sea

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Further verses typically replace "sea/see" with other words, such as "chop", "knee", "bed", or "pick", "toes", with appropriate gestural substitutions.
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While saying "sea", aquatic waves are mimed with the hand; while saying "see", the hand is brought to the eye to mime a "seeing" gesture.
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episode "Unsinkable Molly Mabray." The protagonists sing the song multiple times while constructing a boat and during fantasy sequences.
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parodied the song in its second episode, "God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!" during a parody of
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In 2016, the song appeared in "Gloriana", episode 10, season 1 of the
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Curtis, Mavis (2004). "A sailor went to sea: theme and variations".
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The British Library - Audio recording of A Sailor Went to Sea, 1972
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"A Sailor Went to Sea"
news
newspapers
books
scholar
JSTOR
Learn how and when to remove this message
nursery rhyme
clapping game
skipping rhyme
VeggieTales
Gilligan's Island
Netflix
The Crown
Molly of Denali
Pretty Little Dutch Girl
"Clapping games - A sailor went to sea, sea, sea"
the original
"A Sailor went to Sea (2010)"
VeggieTales: Some Veggies Went To Sea
JSTOR
4522717
Opie, Iona Archibald
The Singing Game
ISBN
978-0-19-211562-1

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