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Red is the Rose

from Some Distant Shore by A Different Thread

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"This traditional Irish ballad is the first song that we learned together after we met busking in Galway, back in 2016. We have toured Ireland every year since. The official music video features footage that spans the last four years. It includes some scenes shot at the Cliffs of Moher, just two days after our chance meeting." See the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=slNmnq2DukE&feature=emb_title

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Red is the rose in yonder garden grows
Fair is the lily of the valley
Clear is the water that rose from the Boyne
And my love is fairer than any

Come over the sea my bonnie English lad
Come over the sea to your darlin'
I’ll choose the rose and you’ll make the vow
And you’ll swear to love me forever

And red is the rose in yonder garden grows
Fair is the lily of the valley
Clear is the water that rose from the Boyne
And my love is fairer than any

We were down by Killarney’s green woods when we strayed
And the moon and the stars, they were shining
Then the moon shone it’s rays down on your pretty face
And you swore to love me forever

Well it ain’t for the parting of your dear sister Kate
It ain’t for the grief of your mother
It is all for the loss of my bonnie English lad
That my heart now is breaking forever

And red is the rose in yonder garden grows
Fair is the lily of the valley
Clear is the water that rose from the Boyne
And my love is fairer than any

credits

from Some Distant Shore, released May 22, 2020
Alicia Best - Vocals, fiddle
Robert Jackson - Vocals, guitar, harmonica

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A Different Thread North Carolina

“Warm, deep singer-songwriters who have drank from the well of 20th century tradition” - Folk Radio UK

A Different Thread, is the collaboration between Robert Jackson from Lichfield, England, and Alicia Best from Durham, North Carolina, USA. Both traveling songwriters in their own right, they first met while busking in Galway, Ireland, back in 2016 and have been touring together ever since.
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