Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.9
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1001
Points per Word
0.0005
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This poetic text is one of many variations of a forecastle chantey created about 1837 by an unknown sailor and named after the bow section of the ship where sailors sometimes bunked or relaxed.