This isn't even a practical question anyone might care about.  It's a
totally silly question.

You all know these words, I'm sure - at least everyone who was a child in
the US does:

"in fourteen hundred ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue"

Does anyone know more than those lines, or the tune past those lines?  Or
anything else about this song?

I found myself explaining about it to a French friend - of course it isn't
part of French kid-culture - and got to wondering.  I googled it, and found
a lot more words (here:  http://columbus.vanderkrogt.net/song.html), but not
much more of interest. Though I didn't look very hard.

And then I was wondering whether anyone else has ever even though about that
silly ditty for more than twenty seconds.  Or whether anyone cares!

Joy