The Lost Quays sing the traditional sea shanty "Blood Red Roses" Shantyman : Bill Grace Thanks to the crew of the Duyfken, and the historic Fremantle Roundhouse.
Hi everyone, I know there are different versions of this tune, but I just thought I might share something interesting seeing as though this tune has had me going through some old stuff of my family’s over the past 4days. I think I may have the original lyrics or something close to original for this tune if anyone is interested, read up. The lyrics I actually found in my grandfathers old suitcase. Most of it’s contents was from world war1 where he was wounded. He died when I was only 7 years old, but the things he left for me for when I got older, I still have. Anyway I found a diary that obviously didn’t belong to him, it’s way too old, so he must’ve found it at some point during the war, it was dated 1687 mostly full of hand written songs and poems and very water damaged but mostly readable. Granddad wasn’t a whaler, he was a ring boxer and tradesman so finding the personal diary of a sailor is pretty out of scope, especially since most sailors had a lot of trouble reading and writing, if they could at all. I always wanted to read through it at some point but life happens and I forgot about it, it’s still here and I’ve e skimmed through it a few times, but never sat down and fully read it, until a couple of days ago when this song came up on my CZcams playlist and I felt like this song was incomplete. I knew this song was in the diary so I grabbed it. And thought I’d post up (what I think) is the original lyrics. I might even try to sing it on CZcams one day. But I don’t want some museum trying to take my grandfathers diary. Even though it wasn’t technically originally his (it’s called the spoils of war, get over it). But I thought I’d write them here and share them in case people are interested. The only thing I’ve changed is putting the lyrics into lines and some punctuation marks to make it more readable. The spelling hasn’t been changed too much but I did have to correct some because it was damn near unreadable if I left it, obviously this sailor just wrote what the words sounded like to him, I did want to keep it as original as I could but some words took me a good few minutes each to decipher, some don’t even look like English at all, so I have cleaned a lot up, but I’ve really tried, my spell checker went nuts on this! So I had to spell everything correctly and go through, word by word and change them. Sorry if I missed any. Although even with my slight doctoring, when you read it with the accented words, it seems very appropriate for a sea shanty. Although this seems more like a working song than a shanty, so it probably should be more upbeat. But I’m no historian, Anyway take a look... Blood red roses “old/possibly original” lyrics written 1687: Mi Bonny bunch of rosis all!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Tim’ for us to roul an’ go!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an’ posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! We’re bond to sail rund Cape Horn! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Where yull wish ta hell! ya ain’t never bin born! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Me dear ald mudda, she said te mi!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Mi dearest sun come hame from sea!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an’ posis... Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Arr boots an’ clothes arr all in porn!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! An it’s bloudy drafty roun’ Cape Horn!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis... Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! So grambal ya may, but go ya mast!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! If ya grambal too much it’s ya head we’ll barst! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! It’s rund dat horn we got te go!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Dat bloudy horn, wit it’s freezin’ snow!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ya got yar advance so ya got te go!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Chasin’ dem whales through da frost an snow!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! To dem killin’ waters, we’ll roll an’ go!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Cos dems der waters, dat de whalefish blow!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Tie him down, cos der bosons drunk!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! If he don’t wake up, he’ll be dragged an’ dunked!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Come now boys, we made birth in Spain!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Time to drink, and play layin’ doun games!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an’ posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Doss Spaniard lassies, devilish,ly fawn! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Go down mi boys, cos ya won’t take long! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Haul her high den, haul her doun low!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Bust dem golden locks, make her squeal an go!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Jus’ one more kick an’ dat’ll dooo!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! It’s a bully sport, but we’ll kick her through!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an’ posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! It’s a hellish time we been away at sea!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Doss hame bound winds fill da sails so free!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Our Hame is our green and loving Brit-tany!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! She’ll be overjoyed to see us hame from sea!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Haul the barrels boys, you’re al mast done!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! With coin enough to last nine months!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!! Hame now arr these bloud red rosis!!! Go doun with them pinks an posis!!! Go doun now ya bloud red rosis!!! Go doun!!! End. If I’m honest, it looks as if much of this song was cut for the amount of sex reference in there. Or they had one version for sea fairing and another to sing on the docks while mum was watching and waving them off. The period was like that as there were “unmentionables one should never bequeath before a lady”... these days no one cares unless you’re looking to complain about something. But c’mon... it’s a 17th century song, written by sailors who went out to sea and didn’t even mention the word female, for anywhere between 6 months to 3 years. I think we can cut the guys a bit of slack here, as they put the frustration into their songs rather than swim for it. There are other sea tunes far worse than this one. This is actually kinda tame in comparison. Anyhow hope you enjoy. It was really good inspiration to get off my butt and look though some family history. C-ya!
My understanding is that this was a shanty taking the piss out out of the seafaring abilities of the Marines who were on all Royal Navy ships to keep the press ganged crew in line...
@@Urban_Goose that why I said at the beginning... “if you’re interested read up”, obviously you’re not interested, but you still just had to leave a comment. If you’re not going to add to a conversation, nobody cares. But to leave a comment about “not having time”... do you want sympathy for that or are you just looking for validation on the internet?
Hi everyone,
I know there are different versions of this tune, but I just thought I might share something interesting seeing as though this tune has had me going through some old stuff of my family’s over the past 4days.
I think I may have the original lyrics or something close to original for this tune if anyone is interested, read up.
The lyrics I actually found in my grandfathers old suitcase. Most of it’s contents was from world war1 where he was wounded. He died when I was only 7 years old, but the things he left for me for when I got older, I still have.
Anyway I found a diary that obviously didn’t belong to him, it’s way too old, so he must’ve found it at some point during the war, it was dated 1687 mostly full of hand written songs and poems and very water damaged but mostly readable.
Granddad wasn’t a whaler, he was a ring boxer and tradesman so finding the personal diary of a sailor is pretty out of scope, especially since most sailors had a lot of trouble reading and writing, if they could at all.
I always wanted to read through it at some point but life happens and I forgot about it, it’s still here and I’ve e skimmed through it a few times, but never sat down and fully read it, until a couple of days ago when this song came up on my CZcams playlist and I felt like this song was incomplete. I knew this song was in the diary so I grabbed it. And thought I’d post up (what I think) is the original lyrics.
I might even try to sing it on CZcams one day. But I don’t want some museum trying to take my grandfathers diary. Even though it wasn’t technically originally his (it’s called the spoils of war, get over it).
But I thought I’d write them here and share them in case people are interested.
The only thing I’ve changed is putting the lyrics into lines and some punctuation marks to make it more readable. The spelling hasn’t been changed too much but I did have to correct some because it was damn near unreadable if I left it, obviously this sailor just wrote what the words sounded like to him, I did want to keep it as original as I could but some words took me a good few minutes each to decipher, some don’t even look like English at all, so I have cleaned a lot up, but I’ve really tried, my spell checker went nuts on this! So I had to spell everything correctly and go through, word by word and change them. Sorry if I missed any.
Although even with my slight doctoring, when you read it with the accented words, it seems very appropriate for a sea shanty. Although this seems more like a working song than a shanty, so it probably should be more upbeat. But I’m no historian, Anyway take a look...
Blood red roses “old/possibly original” lyrics written 1687:
Mi Bonny bunch of rosis all!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Tim’ for us to roul an’ go!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an’ posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!! We’re bond to sail rund Cape Horn!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Where yull wish ta hell! ya ain’t never bin born!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Me dear ald mudda, she said te mi!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Mi dearest sun come hame from sea!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an’ posis...
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Arr boots an’ clothes arr all in porn!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
An it’s bloudy drafty roun’ Cape Horn!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis...
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
So grambal ya may, but go ya mast!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
If ya grambal too much it’s ya head we’ll barst!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
It’s rund dat horn we got te go!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Dat bloudy horn, wit it’s freezin’ snow!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ya got yar advance so ya got te go!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Chasin’ dem whales through da frost an snow!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
To dem killin’ waters, we’ll roll an’ go!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Cos dems der waters, dat de whalefish blow!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Tie him down, cos der bosons drunk!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
If he don’t wake up, he’ll be dragged an’ dunked!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Come now boys, we made birth in Spain!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Time to drink, and play layin’ doun games!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an’ posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Doss Spaniard lassies, devilish,ly fawn!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Go down mi boys, cos ya won’t take long!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Haul her high den, haul her doun low!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Bust dem golden locks, make her squeal an go!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Jus’ one more kick an’ dat’ll dooo!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
It’s a bully sport, but we’ll kick her through!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an’ posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
It’s a hellish time we been away at sea!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Doss hame bound winds fill da sails so free!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Our Hame is our green and loving
Brit-tany!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
She’ll be overjoyed to see us hame from sea!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Haul the barrels boys, you’re al mast done!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
With coin enough to last nine months!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Go doun! Ya bloud red rosis! Go doun!!!
Ooooh ya pinks an posis!!!
Hame now arr these bloud red rosis!!!
Go doun with them pinks an posis!!!
Go doun now ya bloud red rosis!!!
Go doun!!!
End.
If I’m honest, it looks as if much of this song was cut for the amount of sex reference in there. Or they had one version for sea fairing and another to sing on the docks while mum was watching and waving them off. The period was like that as there were “unmentionables one should never bequeath before a lady”... these days no one cares unless you’re looking to complain about something.
But c’mon... it’s a 17th century song, written by sailors who went out to sea and didn’t even mention the word female, for anywhere between 6 months to 3 years. I think we can cut the guys a bit of slack here, as they put the frustration into their songs rather than swim for it.
There are other sea tunes far worse than this one. This is actually kinda tame in comparison.
Anyhow hope you enjoy. It was really good inspiration to get off my butt and look though some family history.
C-ya!
My understanding is that this was a shanty taking the piss out out of the seafaring abilities of the Marines who were on all Royal Navy ships to keep the press ganged crew in line...
as if I'd ever have time to read ur novel
@@Urban_Goose that why I said at the beginning... “if you’re interested read up”, obviously you’re not interested, but you still just had to leave a comment. If you’re not going to add to a conversation, nobody cares. But to leave a comment about “not having time”... do you want sympathy for that or are you just looking for validation on the internet?
@@gabrielxai5321 I still read like half of it but I meant not all and I was making a joke
@@Urban_Goose I was just kidding around I was being sarcastic, I guess sarcasm doesn’t work in messages very well. Sorry if it seemed harsh.
I was looking for some real style shanties... and in flood of songs about sailing i found that. Absolutly excellent!
This was a favourite of my dad as a sailor and folk singer before he passed
they're taking the Duyfken to Sydney!! Will be moored in the harbour. glad we got to film something on it while we could!
Nicely done!
Love it!
Вы удивительные!!!
This is amazing! Perfect inspiration for my writing!
Aye mateys!! A riveting rendition! We are instant fans! Thank you!!!!
great job
this is great!
If you are going for authenticity: the sudden cuts to the red brick wall are counter-productive.
interhigh gang momento
tempo all wrong... imagine a crew trying to raise a sail at this pace... shit.
Too fast. Too upbeat.