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Oh open the door, Lord Gregory

THE LASS OF ROCH ROYAL—I

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Johnson's Museum, I, 5, No 5, 1787.

1

Oh open the door, Lord Gregory,
Oh open, and let me in;
The rain rains on my scarlet robes,
The dew drops oer my chin.’

2

‘If you are the lass that I lovd once,
As I true you are not she,
Come give me some of the tokens
That past between you and me.’

3

‘Ah wae be to you, Gregory,
An ill death may you die!
You will not be the death of one,
But you'll be the death of three.

4

‘Oh don't you mind, Lord Gregory,
'Twas down at yon burn-side
We changd the ring of our fingers,
And I put mine on thine?’