See also: canoe song paddling song voyageur
- 1820  (1889-1890)  He could occasionally join his men in the chorus of some of the voyageurs boat songs, with which they beguiled [sic] the tediousness of the voyage and the labours of the paddle.
- 1956  (1957)  The HB men could only listen, for they had no boat song of their own.