Fair and Tender Ladies lyrics

Come all you fair and tender ladies

Take warning how you court your men

They’re like a star on a summer’s morning

They first appear and then they’re gone

They’ll tell to you some flattering story

And then declare that they love you well

Then they’ll go and court some other

And leave you here in grief to dwell

I wish I was a little sparrow

And one of those that could fly so high

And I’d fly home to my true love’s dwelling

When he would speak, I’d be close by

I wish to the Lord I’d never seen him

Or in his cradle he had died

And I’d lie down in my grief and sorrow

And try to pass my troubles by

If I had known before I courted

That love had been so hard to win

I’d locked my heart with keys of golden

And pinned it down with a silver pin

Oh love is great, and love is charming

And love is pure when first it’s new

But love grows old and love grows colder

It fades away like morning dew

Come all you fair and tender ladies

Be careful how you court your men

They’re like a star on a summer’s morning

They first appear and then they’re gone