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Blood Red Roses

from Crossing the Line by Forty Degrees South

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Neil Colquhoun says this song was collected by John Leebrick from “the dau­ghter of a former captain of an American whaleship which had operated around the New Zealand coast during the 1830s”. The shanty is commonly reported to be used for hauling down on stays’l halliards. It was noted in Captain R.C. Adams in On Board the Rocket (1879) as ‘Come down you bunch of roses’

lyrics

Come all you sealers and listen to me
... Come down you blood red roses, come down.
A lovely song I’ll sing to thee.
... Come down you blood red roses, come down.

Chorus:
Oh, you pinks and posies
Come down you blood red roses, come down

It was in eighteen hundred and three
That we set sail for the southern sea

Our captain he has set us down
And he’s set sail for Sydney town.

And he has left us with some grub
Oh one split pea in a half gallon tub

And here we are, all covered with fur
And we’ve grown tails like Lucifer

When our captain he returns for a spell
We’ll treat him well, like bloody hell!

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from Crossing the Line, released July 9, 2021
Trad. 1830s

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Forty Degrees South Sydney, Australia

A Sydney folk group known from 1988 for their powerful impact when singing unaccompanied traditional songs.

Strong individual singers, the interplay of their combined voices makes for a distinctive sound.

Sea shanties and other songs of maritime and industrial history and union songs feature large in their repertoire, songs with a robust quality that tell of real people, their lives and work. ... more

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