.Oh, Let Me In This One Night ©

I.    He:
Oh lassie, are you sleeping yet,
Or are awake, how I would know?
For love has bound me -- hand and foot,
And I would fondly be in
                                                              His Refrain
O, let me in this one night,
This one, one, one, one o-o-ne night!
O, let me in this one night,
And rise, and let me in!
II.    He:
You hear the winter wind and wet
No star blink through the driving sleet!
Take pity on my weary feet,
And shield me from the rain.
                                                             His Refrain
III.    He:
The bitter blast that round me blows,
Unheeded howls, unheeded falls:
The coldness of your heart is the cause
Of all my care and sores.
                                                                His Refrain

O, tell me not of wind and rain,
Upbraid not me with cold disdain,
Go back the road you came again,
I will not let you in.

                                                 Her Refrain
I tell you now this one night,
This one, one, one, one o-o-ne night!
And once for all this one night,
I will not let you in.
II.     She:
The fiercest blast at darkest hours,
That round the pathless wanderer pours
Is nothing to what poor she endures,
That has trusted faithless man.
                                        Her Refrain
III.    She:
The sweetest flower that decked the meadow,
Now trodden like the vilest weed -
Let simple maid the lesson read!
The fate may be her own.
The bird that charmed his summer day,
And now the cruel fowler's prey,
Let that to witless woman say:-
‘The grateful heart of man. ‘
                                        Her Refrain