I'm posting a song a day from the Rise Up Singing songbook, which you may or may not know. It's a pretty invaluable resource for song leaders, and useful for anyone who likes to sing in groups. The book doesn't include the melodies to the songs, just the lyrics and some chords, so I’m trying hard to find the tunes I don’t know, learn them, and post them on YouTube for anyone to learn. That’s where these videos are hosted; the blog is just pretty packaging.
Monday, July 20, 2009
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
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