Blood Red Roses Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]Go down you Blood Red Roses
[C]Go [D]down you pinks and posies
Go down you Blood Red Roses
Go down you pinks and posies

[Verse 2]
[D]Sailing out of Boston one
hundred days at sea
On the [Bm]good ship Bonadventure,
[G]a'whaling men are we
[D]We set sail for the Cape Horn
Where the seas are cold as ice
The [Bm]wind will bite right through you
Like a [G]thousand starving mice
Our [A]ship is made of solid wood but
our men are made of steel
[G]One step outta line you'll be
hauled beneath [D]the keel

[Verse 3]
Go [D]down you Blood Red Roses
[C]Go [D]down you pinks and posies
Go down you Blood Red Roses
Go down you pinks and posies
[Bm]

[Interlude 1]
[G][D]
[Bm][G][D]

[Verse 4]
Ahh [D]the captains name is Joshua,
a mountain of a man
[Bm]The rest of us are salty dogs,
[G]misfits of the land
[D]There's something in the air tonight,
the men they cannot sleep
Are they [Bm]dreaming of a watery grave
or the [G]ghost of Moby Dick
We'll be [A]home before the new year
with stories to be told
[G]With a ship load of whale oil
and a pocket full of [D]gold
[Bm]Go

[Verse 5]
[D]down you Blood Red Roses
Go down you pinks and [Bm]posies
Go [D]down you Blood Red Roses
Go down you pinks and [A]posies

[Interlude 2]
[Bm][G][D]
[Bm]
[G][D]
[A][G][D][A][G][D]
[A][G][D][G]
[A][D]

[Verse 6]
[D]Ahoy me boys there she blows,
a monster of the deep
[Bm]Lower the boats away me lads
[G]she must be sixty feet
[D]Steady boys, now hold your nerve
she's a killer of a whale
She could [Bm]sink this ship with just
One flick of her [G]mighty, mighty tail

[Verse 7]
Go [D]down you Blood Red Roses
Go down you pinks and posies
Go down you [A]Blood [D]Red [Bm]Roses
[D]Go down you pinks and posies
[A]

[Outro 1]
[Bm][G][D]
[Bm][G][D]