“My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose”
Description
"My love is like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June, My love is like a melody that's sweetly sprung in June." The singer promises to love "Till all the seas gang dry" and return to his love though his voyage takes him "ten thousand mile"
Notes
The irony of this song, of course, is that Burns himself was about as constant as -- well, we won't go into that....
I don't know if this song ever did much in tradition, but it's certainly one of the more often-printed of Burns's poems (printed, e.g., as item CXC in Palgrave's _Golden Treasury_). - RBW
Recordings
- Mrs. McGrath, "My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose" (on Lomax43, LomaxCD1743)
References
- Silber-FSWB, p. 140, "My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose" (1 text)
- DT, REDREDRO*
- Roud #12946
- BI, FSWB140C