<P> "A Red, Red Rose" is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources . The song is also referred to by the title "Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose", "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" or "Red, Red Rose" and is often published as a poem . </P> <P> O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in june; O my Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune: As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I: And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry: Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun: I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run . And fare thee weel, my only Luve And fare thee weel, a while! And I will come again, my Luve, Tho' it were ten thousand mile . </P> <P> Burns worked for the final ten years of his life on projects to preserve traditional Scottish songs for the future . In all, Burns had a hand in preserving over 300 songs for posterity, the most famous being "Auld Lang Syne". He worked on this project for James Johnson's the Scots Musical Museum (1787 - 1803) and for George Thomson's five - volume A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice . Burns had intended the work to be published as part of Thomson's selection . However, he wrote to a friend that Thomson and he disagreed on the merits of that type of song . "What to me appears to be the simple and the wild, to him, and I suspect to you likewise, will be looked on as the ludicrous and the absurd ." </P> <P> Instead, Burns gave the song to Scots singer Pietro Urbani who published it in his Scots Songs . In his book, Urbani claimed "the words of The Red Red Rose were obligingly given to him by a celebrated Scots poet, who was so struck by them when sung by a country girl that he wrote them down and, not being pleased with the air, begged the author to set them to music in the style of a Scots tune, which he has done accordingly ." In other correspondence, Burns referred to it as a "simple old Scots song which I had picked up in the country ." </P>

Robert burns my love is like a red red rose