Red Is the Rose

Adapted and arranged by Tommy Makem from a traditional Scottish tune, Irish song
The tune is the same as "Loch Lomond"
Rise Up Singing chapter: Love
C Am F G / C Am F G / F C Dm G / C Am G C
or
C Am F G / C Am F G / F C Dm FG / C Am G C

Come over the hills my bonny Irish lass
Come over the hills to your darling
You choose the road, love and I'll make a vow
That I'll be your true love forever

Chorus:
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
Fair is the lily of the valley
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne*
But my love is fairer than any

It's down in Killarney's* green woods that we strayed...

*The Boyne:
Britannica
IrishFisheries.com
Wikipedia

*Killarney:
"Killarney has the largest yew wood in Europe (some 32 hectares/80 acres) as well as the most extensive native oak woodland in Ireland (c.600 hectares/1,500 acres).
As well there are extensive swamp woodlands -alder and sally."
http://www.killarney.ie/history.php