Fair and Tender Ladies

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
 They'll tell you some lovin story
 They'll swear to you that their love is true
 Straight they'll go on
 And they'll court some other
 That's the love they have for you
 Oh don't you remember our days of courting
 You told then that you loved me best
 You could make me believe
 If I fell out of your arms
 That the sun rose in the west
 I wish I was some little sparrow
 and I had wings and I could fly
 I'd fly right by
 to my false true lover
 when he's talking I'd deny
 but I am not some little sparrow
 and I've no wings and I can't fly
 so stay right here
 in my grief and sarrow
 and let my times pass me by