Come All Ye Fair & Tender Maidens
Joan Baez
(x3) Come all ye fair and tender maidens Take warning how you court young men They're like a star of a summer's morning First they'll app-e-a-r and then they're gone. They'll tell to y-ou some loving story They'll swear to y-ou their love is true Straightway they'll g - o and court another And that's the love that they had for you. If I'd a kn-own before I courted That love it was such a killin' thing I'd lock my heart in a box of golden And fastened it up with a silver chain. O do you rememb-er our days of courtin' When your head lay upon my breast You could make me believe with the falling of your eyes That the sun rose in the west. I wish I w-a-s a little sparrow And I had wings and I could fly I'd fly away to my own true lover And when he speaks I won't deny. But I am not no little sparrow I have no wings neither can I fly I'll sit right do-wn in my grief and sorrow And let my troubles pass me by. Come all ye fair and tender maidens Take warning how you court young men They're like a star of a summer's morning First they'll app-e-a-r and then they're gone.
