The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #7171   Message #179648
Posted By: Jim Krause
16-Feb-00 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Red Is the Rose
Subject: RE: Red Is The Rose
Sandy, I've heard of Joe Heaney from somewhere. He might have recorded some, maybe Fiona Ritchie played his recordings on Thistle & Shamrock. Anyway, I know the version to the air of Loch Lomond too. First heard it on a sound track to a video made by American Pioneer Video. Everyone in my neck of the woods learned it from that video, I think. I detected quite a few modern that is post 1820 folk songs and tunes on the video, so I began to wonder about the antuquity of "Red Is The Rose."