Open the Door to Me Oh

DESCRIPTION: "O, open the door, some pity to show, Oh, open the door to me oh! Though thou has been false, I'll ever prove true." The girl is colder than the frost. He says he will leave forever. She opens the door "and sunk down by his side O never to rise again O"
AUTHOR: Words: Robert Burns
EARLIEST DATE: 1793 (Kinsley)
KEYWORDS: love rejection death
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, pp. 197-198, "O! Open the Door" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: James Kinsley, editor, Burns: Complete Poems and Songs (shorter edition, Oxford, 1969) #403, p. 541, "Open the door to me Oh" (1 text, 1 tune, from 1793)
Roud #30952
File: HMHS197C

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