Blood Red Roses Lyrics - Rod Stewart

Go down you Blood Red Roses 

Go down you pinks and posies 

Go down you Blood Red Roses 

Go down you pinks and posies 

Sailing out of Boston one hundred days at sea 

On the good ship Bonadventure, a'whaling men are we 

We set sail for the Cape Horn 

Where the seas are cold as ice 

The wind will bite right through you 

Like a thousand starving mice 

Our ship is made of solid wood but our men are made of steel 

One step outta line you'll be hauled beneath the keel 

Go down you Blood Red Roses 

Go down you pinks and posies 

Go down you Blood Red Roses 

Go down you pinks and posies 

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Ahh the captains name is Joshua, a mountain of a man 

The rest of us are salty dogs, misfits of the land 

There's something in the air tonight, the men they cannot sleep 

Are they dreaming of a watery grave or the ghost of Moby Dick 

We'll be home before the new year with stories to be told 

With a ship load of whale oil and a pocket full of gold 

Go down you Blood Red Roses 

Go down you pinks and posies 

Go down you Blood Red Roses 

Go down you pinks and posies 

Ahoy me boys there she blows, a monster of the deep 

Lower the boats away me lads she must be sixty feet 

Steady boys, now hold your nerve she's a killer of a whale 

She could sink this ship with just 

one flick of her mighty, mighty tail 

Go down you Blood Red Roses 

Go down you pinks and posies 

Go down you Blood Red Roses 

Go down you pinks and posies