X:1
T:The Banks of Red Roses
S:John MacDonald
B:MacColl and Seeger, Traveller's Songs from England and Scotland, Routledge And Kegan Paul, 1977
Z:Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
M:4/4     %Meter
L:1/8     %
K:C
E2 |G2 G4 A2 |(E2 D2) C3 C |c2 c2 d2 e2 |G2 c3 d z2 |
w:When I was a young_ thing, my moth-er used to say__ 
e2 d2 c2 B2 | c2 A2 G2 E2 |A2 A2 G2 E2 |  D4 z2                                
w:That I'd be a rov-in' lass and eas-y led a- stray; 
E2 | G4 G2 A2 |(E2 D2) C3 C |c2 c2 d2 e2 |G2 z2 
w:Be-fore I would work,_ sure, I'd rath-er sport and play 
c2 d2 |e2 d2 c2 B2 |(A G3) c2 E2 |D8 |C4  |]
w:On the bon-nie, bon-nie banks_ of the ro-ses.