{"id":851,"date":"2021-05-10T05:05:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=851"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:00:17","slug":"roses-are-red-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/roses-are-red-my-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Roses are Red, My Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TiANfcu5D30&#038;list=PLLAAcCXYXLrqImJHyiJ9P1klkuM-4Oa2U&#038;index=1&#038;pp=iAQB8AUB\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/TiANfcu5D30\/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwFBCNACELwBSFryq4qpAzMIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB8AEB-AH-CYAC0AWKAgwIABABGGUgVChEMA8=&#038;rs=AOn4CLCN7hkJVD7792vWdC83a5O8aO5JSQ\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8211; Listen to Roses are Red as sung by Bobby Vinton.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EYjIdBFpr9E\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/robertandrews.net\/images\/youtube.png\" width=\"30\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><code class=\"_3enQP\"><\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<pre><span class=\"_3rlxz\">#1 in USA &amp; #15 in UK in '62.\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">\r\n[C] A long, long [G7] time ago, on gradu- [C] ation day\r\nYou handed [F] me your book;  [G7] I signed this [C] way\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\r\n(CHORUS) - - - - - [C7] \"Roses are [F] red, my love.  Violets are [C] blue.\r\nSugar is [F] sweet, my love, but [G7] not as sweet as [C] you\"<\/span>\r\n\r\n[C] We dated [G7] through high school, and when the [C] big day came\r\nI wrote [F] into your book - [G7] Next to my [C] name.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(CHORUS) - - - - -<\/span> \r\n\r\nVERSE TUNE CHANGE ON THIS VERSE ONLY\r\n[F] Then I went [G] far [G7] away, and [C] you found some- [C7] one new\r\n[F] I read your [G7] letter dear - And [C] I wrote [F7] back to [G7] you\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(CHORUS)  [C7] \"Roses are [F] red, my love. Violets are [C] blue. \r\nSugar is [F] sweet, my love.  Good [G7] luck, may God bless [C] you\"<\/span>\r\n\r\n[F] Is that your [G] little [G7] girl?   She [C] looks a lot like [C7] you\r\n[F] Someday, some [G7] boy will [C] write in [F7] her book [G7] too\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\r\n(CHORUS) - - - - - \r\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8211; Listen to Roses are Red as sung by Bobby Vinton.\u00a0 #1 in USA &amp; #15 in UK in &#8217;62. [C] A long, long [G7] time ago, on gradu- [C] ation day You handed [F] me your book; [G7] I signed this [C] way (CHORUS) &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/roses-are-red-my-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roses are Red, My Love<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,116,117,68,131,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-love-songs","category-power-outage","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30236,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/30236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}