Fair And Tender Ladies

Come all you fair and tender ladies

Take warning how you court young men

For they're like a star on a cloudy morning

First they'll appear and then they're gone

They'll tell to you some loving stories

And they'll swear to you that their love is true

Straight away they'll go and they'll court some other

And that's the love they have for you

Don't you remember our days of courting?

You told me then that you loved me best

You could make me believe with the falling of your arm

That the sun rose in the west

If I had known before I courted

I never would have courted none

I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden

Fastened down with a silver pin

So come all you fair and tender ladies

Take warning how you court young men

They're like a star on a cloudy morning

First they'll appear and then they're gone