Comments on: Banks of Red Roses

By: Diana

Diana — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:38:43 +0000

@Muzza: Right me deario, where is said picture of boy sprout and why only two wishes left. I am greedy I want as many as I can get.

Dear me, dribbbling at your age I hope you have got a bib on. Ladies beach volley ball eh? I wonder why you picked that. I like Taggart and his “muder” but why are these chappies always bumbing off these delightful young girls? You would not stoop so low.

I, on the other hand watched the bike racing where it was a disaster for the GB team and after all the hype that went before. They were counting the medals before the race began – the kiss of death.

By: Old Muzza(NW Surrey-UK)

Old Muzza(NW Surrey-UK) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:41:06 +0000

@Diana……….. “one track minded” men, with muder in their plans…or even muuurrrrddder(ala Taggart)…..
I am watching Olympic ladies play beach volley ball….
I don’t know why I am watching them or even what plans I would have had I been many years younger……..
more concerned with trying to remember why I am dribbling.

By: Old Muzza(NW Surrey-UK)

Old Muzza(NW Surrey-UK) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:36:09 +0000

@Diana……..FB has granted your wish…(only two left now)

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:09:34 +0000

Muzza would have loved to have seen you as a boy sprout – esecially with a hatchet and a sheath knife – a really ladies’ man then. You would have been great for protection against all these “one track minded” men, with muder in their plans.

By: Old Muzza(NW Surrey-UK)

Old Muzza(NW Surrey-UK) — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:35:33 +0000

@Jane/Diana…………..when I were a lad…a boy scout back in the 50s (1950s),
we all had sheath knives on our belts as standard kit. Each of these had a 6″ blade at least and even at age 12 we would not think of sticking them into somebody.
If we had a disagreement it was settled with fists…never thought of the knife……
and now I find(through AFSAD songs) that in ‘Ye Olde Dayes’,they were part of a chap’s ‘courtin’ kit!’
I would have been a real ‘Ladies man’ as I also carried a hatchet on my scout belt!

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:03:10 +0000

You are right there Jane, there have been so many heinous crimes committed with a pen knife or a pocket knife – probably they are the same thing anyway. But so many poor womem died at the hand of these lotharios – it is about time the worm turned. Only a few men got bumped off in these songs. Mind you he could not have got away with a plea of accidental death as he had already dug her grave. Rotten swine!

By: Jane Ramsden

Jane Ramsden — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:06:49 +0000

@ Diana: Oh, it’ll be the usual ’sex has reared its ugly head’ again (ref ‘love to sport and play’) so she’d be ‘up the duff’ as one delicately puts it! She didn’t want him to leave; he didn’t want to be tied down, so out comes the pocket knife. Someone must have made a mint out of selling ‘em!

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:15:59 +0000

Liked the song but there are so many different versions yet again. Out comes the pocket knife for the umpteenth time and the poor girl lies dead. But why this horrendous crime – he professed to love her!

By: muzza(s.e.England)

muzza(s.e.England) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:50:00 +0000

Jon Boden…..you are no gentleman………….at least in the “first link above” version the poor lass got a cup of tea before the dreadful deeed!

So he took her to his cabin where he treated her to tea
Saying drink my dearest Mary and come along with me
Saying drink my dearest Mary and come along with me
To the bonny bonny banks of Red Roses

By: Jane Ramsden

Jane Ramsden — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:48:04 +0000

Mysterious stunner, this one! As one commentator said of June Tabor’s version on YouTube ‘how unchristly awesome’! About sums it up!