Fair and Tender Ladies

[Verse 1]
Come all ye fair and you tender ladies
Take a warning how you court young men
They'll appear like a star on a summer mornin'
They'll once appear and then they're gone

[Verse 2]
They'll tell to you many loving stories
They'll bow and say they love you true
And when they find they've gained your love
They'll run away and they'll leave you

[Verse 3]
Oh, once I had a sweetheart
Indeed I thought he was my own
He went right straight and courted another
Left me here in grief to mourn

[Verse 4]
I wish I was a little sparrow
And I had wings and I could fly
I'd fly away to my false lover
And when he'd speak, I would be by

[Verse 5]
I'd ask him who he aimed to flatter
Who's tender heart did aim to break?
And then upon his breast, I'd flutter
With my tender little wings

[Verse 6]
But you see, I am no sparrow
I've neither got no wings to fly
I'll just go along in grief and sorrow
Singin' pass my troubles by

[Verse 1]
Come all ye fair and you tender ladies
Take a warning how you court young men
They'll appear like a star on a summer mornin'
They'll once appear and then they're gone