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“Blood-Red Roses” is a double-pull halyard chantey, used for raising a yard. I first learned this song at the San Francisco chantey sing, though at this point I would be hard-pressed to say whose version to which mine most closely hews. Certainly, the Mollyhawks, Danny Spooner, and and the Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem were all influential.
This is one of my favorites to use as an actual halyard chantey at Mystic Seaport. The simple chorus makes it easy on the crew, especially visitors who are pressganged into helping; the rhymed couplets can come in any order, and the semi-chorus interlude gives the chanteyman a chance to think about the next couplet.
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