Come All Ye Fair & Tender Maidens

(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.