Blood Red Rose (The)

 BLOOD-RED ROSE (To Daunton Me). AKA and see "Moran's Return." Irish, Scottish; Slow Air (4/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. In 1788 Robert Burns (1759-1796) composed a song to this melody by the title “To Daunton Me,” printed in Thompson’s Scots Musical Museum (1797), which begins: The blude-red rose at Yule may blaw, The simmer lilies bloom in snaw, ''The frost may freeze the deepest sea;' ' But an auld man shall never daunton me. See also O'Farrell's "To Daunton Me", of which O'Neill's air seems to be a direct development of. Printed source: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 383, p. 67.

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