All boats and clothes are all in port
Go down, you blood -red roses,
go down
It's mighty draughty round Cape Horn
Go down, you blood -red roses, go down
All you pinks and posies
Go down, you blood -red roses, go down
But it's round Cape Horn that we must go
Go down, you blood -red roses, go down
For that is where them whale -fish blow
Go down, you blood -red roses, go down
All you pinks and posies
Go down, you blood -red roses, go down
My dear old mother out to me
Go down, you blood -red roses, go down
Oh, son, dear son,
come home from sea
Go down, you blood -red roses, go down
Oh, you pinks and posies
Go down, you blood -red roses, go down
Now one more pull and that'll do
Go down, you blood -red roses,
go down
For we're the boys to pull or throw
Go down, you blood -red roses, go down
All you pinks and posies
Go down, you blood -red roses, go down you