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This tune is a Jig.

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T:Red is the Rose
S:Digital Tradition, redrose
B:Joe Heaney, via Helen Schneyer & Lucy Simpson
O:Irish
Z:dt:redrose
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=100
W:Over the mountains and down in the glen
W:To a little thatched cot in the valley
W:where the thrush and the linnet sing their ditty and their song
W:And my love's leaning over the half-door
W:
W: Chorus:
W: Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
W: Fair is the lily of the valley
W: Clear are the waters that flow in yonder stream
W: But my love is fairer than any.
W:
W:Down by the seashore on a cool summer's eve
W:With the moon rising over the heather
W:The moon it shown fair on her head of golden hair
W:And she vowed she'd be my love forever.
W:
W:It is not for the loss of my own sister Kate
W:It is not for the loss of my mother,
W:It is all for the loss of my bonnie blue-eyed lass
W:That I'm leaving my homeland forever.
K:F
% TUNEdb Number 5858
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Submitted by : kkrell

Collected by : Martin Doering

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Red Is The Rose