Here you go, Joy.

http://www.teachingheart.net/columbus.htm

On Oct 6, 2007, at 12:23 AM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> 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
>