Banks of Red Roses Songtext
von Scrüj MacDuhk

When I was a wee thing, I heard my mother say
That I was a rambler, and easy led astray.
Before that I would work, I would rather sport and play
With my Johnny on the banks for red roses.

On the banks of red roses, my love and I sat down.
And I took out my fiddle for to play my love a tune.
In the middle of the tune, she smiled and she said,
"Oh Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me?"

And they walked, and they talked, till they came up to a cave,
Where the night before, her Johnny, he′d been digging at her grave.
Where the night before, her Johnny, he'd been digging at her grave.
On the bonny, bonny banks of red roses.

On the banks of red roses, my love and I sat down.
And I took out my fiddle for to play my love a tune.
In the middle of the tune, she smiled and she said,
"Oh Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me?"


"Oh Johnny, dearest Johnny, that grave′s not meant for me."
"Oh yes, my dearest Molly, that your bridal bed shall be.
Oh yes, my dearest Molly, that your bridal bed shall be."
And he's laid her down low on red roses.

On the banks of red roses, my love and I sat down.
And I took out my fiddle for to play my love a tune.
In the middle of the tune, she smiled and she said,
"Oh Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me?"

That night while walking home, his heart was full of fear,
And everyone he met, he thought it was his dear.
And everyone he met, he thought it was his dear
He had slain on the banks of red roses.

On the banks of red roses, my love and I sat down.
And I took out my fiddle for to play my love a tune.
In the middle of the tune, she smiled and she said,
"Oh Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me?"

On the banks of red roses, my love and I sat down.
And I took out my fiddle for to play my love a tune.
In the middle of the tune, she smiled and she said,
"Oh Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me?"

"Oh Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me?"