Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens

- Tradicionály

               D               G 
1. Come all ye fair and tender ladies. 
               D       G           Emi 
    Be careful how you court young men. 
             D     G                  Hmi 
    They're like a star on a summer's morning. 
                    C        G            D 
    They'll first appear and then they're gone. 
 
2. They'll tell you some loving story 
    They'll declare to you their love is true 
    Then they will go and court some other 
    And that's the love they have for you 
 
3. Do you remember our days of courting 
    When your head lay upon my breast 
    You could make me believe with falling of your arm 
    That the sun rose in the West 
 
4. I wish I was a little sparrow, 
   And I had wings with which to fly 
   Right over to see my false true-lover, 
   And when he's talking I'd be nigh. 
 
5. But I'm not a little sparrow, 
    I have no wings with which to fly 
   So I sit here in grief and sorrow, 
   To weep and pass my troubles by. 
 
6. If I had known before I courted 
    that love was such a killing thing 
    I'd a-locked my heart in a box of golden 
    and fastened it up with a silver pin.