Blood Red Roses

Album: Blood Red Roses (2018)
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  • Go down you Blood Red Roses
    Go down you pinks and posies
    Go down you Blood Red Roses
    Go down you pinks and posies
    Sailing out of Boston one hundred days at sea
    On the good ship Bonadventure, a'whaling men are we
    We set sail for the Cape Horn, where the seas are cold as ice
    The wind will bite right through you like a thousand starving mice

    Our ship is made of solid wood but our men are made of steel
    One step outta line you'll be hauled beneath the keel

    Go down you Blood Red Roses
    Go down you pinks and posies
    Go down you Blood Red Roses
    Go down you pinks and posies

    Ah, the captain's name is Joshua, a mountain of a man
    The rest of us are salty dogs, misfits of the land
    There's something in the air tonight, the men they cannot sleep
    Are they dreaming of a watery grave or the ghost of Moby Dick

    We'll be home before the new year with stories to be told
    With a ship load of whale oil and a pocket full of gold

    Go down you Blood Red Roses
    Go down you pinks and posies
    Go down you Blood Red Roses
    Go down you pinks and posies

    Ahoy me boys there she blows, a monster of the deep
    Lower the boats away me lads she must be sixty feet
    Steady boys, now hold your nerve she's a killer of a whale
    She could sink this ship with just one flick of her mighty, mighty tail

    Go down you Blood Red Roses
    Go down you pinks and posies
    Go down you Blood Red Roses
    Go down you pinks and posies Writer/s: Ewan MacColl, Kevin Savigar, KEVIN STUART JAMES SAVIGAR, PEGGY SEEGER, Rod Stewart
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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