Monthly Rose, The

DESCRIPTION: Man and woman compare each other, privately, to a diamond or pearl, a rose, and so on. She is afraid "another will enjoy him." He overhears her and proposes. "I'll lock the door with marriage So that none durst enter in"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1875 (Greig/Duncan5)
KEYWORDS: courting love marriage flowers
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #167, p. 1, "The Monthly Rose" (1 text)
Greig/Duncan5 990, "The Monthly Rose" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #6299
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh Gin My Love War a Red Rose" (some verses)
NOTES [104 words]: Greig/Duncan5 990A fragment: "'From MS. of George F Duncan (1875) ...." The fragment text -- "But I'm sure it will never be me; Never be me; But I'm sure it will never be me" -- does not appear in the Greig text, which is also the other Greig/Duncan5 text. The editors must have included it here because of the source's memory of the drift of the song.
Greig: "From this song and another 'When you are on the sea sailing,' ... Burns evidently got material for his famous song 'Oh, my love is like a red red rose.'" See Robert Burns, The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (New Lanark,2005), p. 395, "A Red, Red Rose." - BS
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