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