Hearts Like Doors Can Ope' With Ease

DESCRIPTION: "Hearts like doors will open with ease To very little keys, And they are these: 'I thank you sir' and "If you please.'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1884 (J. S. Ogilvie, "One Thousand Popular Quotations... Suitable for Writing in Autograph Albums")
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 126, "(Hearts like doors will open with ease)" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: J. S. Ogilvie, _One Thousand Popular Quotations Comprising the Choicest Thoughts and Sayings of Eminent Writers of All Ages, Together With Nearly Three Hundred Original and Choice Selections, Suitable for Writing in Autograph Albums_, J. S. Ogivie, Publisher (New York & Chicago), 1884 (available on Google Books), p. 111 f Part I and p. 72 of Part II, "Hearts, like doors, can ope' with ease" (2 texts)
NOTES [46 words]: Hymnary.org reports that this was printed in the 1936 "Hymnal for Boys and Girls" with the tune being the Larghetto from Beethoven's second symphony. I have no idea if Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore's informant, who learned it in the nineteenth century, knew it to that tune. - RBW
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