{"id":6938,"date":"1999-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"1999-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6938","title":{"rendered":"Blood Red Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/BloodRed.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"100\" alt=\"BloodRed.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/BloodRed.mp3\">Blood Red Roses<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"about\">The chanteyman often used improvisation and parody in his solo lines to the advantage and amusement of the crew, but the chorus lines, on which the work action was based, were repetitive and changeless. For example, in using Blood Red Roses to raise the top-sails, top gallant sails (t&#039;ga&#039;n&#039;s&#039;ls), or sky-s&#039;ls, the chanteyman, who on some ships also put his back to the task, would have sung:<\/p>\n<p>Chanteyman: Our boots and clothes are all in pawn<\/p>\n<p>Crew: Go down Ye blood red roses. Go down<\/p>\n<p>Chanteyman: And its flamin&#039; drafty &#039;round Cape Horn<\/p>\n<p>Crew: Go down Ye blood red roses. Go down<\/p>\n<p>The word Go, was the signal for the men to haul back on the halyards.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nOur boots and clothes are all in pawn<br \/>\nGo down, you blood red roses, Go down.<br \/>\nAnd its flamin&#039; drafty &#039;round Cape Horn,<br \/>\nGo down, you blood red roses, Go down.<br \/>\ncho: Oh, you pinks and posies,<br \/>\nGo down, you blood red roses, Go down.<br \/>\nMy dear old mother said to me,<br \/>\nMy dearest son, come home from sea.<br \/>\nIt&#039;s &#039;round Cape Horn we all must go<br \/>\n&#039;Round Cape Horn in the frost and snow.<br \/>\nYou&#039;ve got your advance, and to sea you&#039;ll go<br \/>\nTo chase them whales through the frost and snow.<br \/>\nIt&#039;s &#039;round Cape Horn you&#039;ve got to go,<br \/>\nFor that is where them whalefish blow.<br \/>\nIt&#039;s growl you may, but go you must,<br \/>\nIf you growl too much your head they&#039;ll bust.<br \/>\nJust one more pull and that will do<br \/>\nFor we&#039;re the boys to kick her through.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Blood Red Roses The chanteyman often used improvisation and parody in his solo lines to the advantage and amusement of the crew, but the chorus lines, on which the work action was based, were repetitive and changeless. For example, in using Blood Red Roses to raise the top-sails, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blood Red Roses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}