O This Door Locked

DESCRIPTION: "O this door locked and the other one too, my mammy she'll kill me (x2), Come on here, No ma'am, O this door locked." "I'll hoist them windows and I will come out, my mammy she'll kill me...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1918 (Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians)
KEYWORDS: mother separation
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians 253, 'O This Door Locked" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #3662
NOTES [27 words]: A fragment of a song about a girl wanting to come out and meet her lover, but confined by her mother? I don't know, but it seems the most likely explanation. - RBW
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File: ShAp253

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