Douglas! Tender and True

DESCRIPTION: "Could you come back to me, Douglas! Douglas! In the old likeness that I knew, I would be so faithful." The singer promises no harsh words. "I was not half worthy of you." "Stretch out your hand to me... I lay my heart on your dead heart, Douglas!"
AUTHOR: Words: Dinah M. Mulock (source: Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood) / Music: Lady John Scott, source: Heart-Songs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1909 (Heart-Songs)
KEYWORDS: love death separation
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, pp. 160-161, "I was not half worthy of you" (1 fragment)
Heart-Songs, p. 84, "Douglas! Tender and True" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #25550
NOTES [28 words]: If I were to pick one word to describe this, it would be "nauseating." But Alice Kane apparently learned it from tradition, so into the Index it goes. My apologies. - RBW
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