Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies

Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies

Come all you fair and tender ladies

Take warning how you court young men

They’re like a star in a sunlight morning

They’ll first appear and then they’re gone

They’ll tell to you some pleasing story

Declare to you they love you well

Then go away and court another

And that’s the love they have for you

I once did meet a fair true lover

A true one too, I took him to be

And then he went away and found him another

And that’s the love he had for me

Oh that I were a little sparrow

Or had I wings that I could fly

Then away after my true love I’d follow

And tell him of for deceiving me

I hope there is a day a-coming

When love shall put an end to me

I hope there is a place of torment

To secure my love for deceiving me

If I had known before I courted

I would have never courted none

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

And fastened it with a silver pin