Come all you fair and tender ladies
Language: English
Come all you fair and tender ladies, Be careful how you court young men; They’re like a star of a summer’s morning, They’ll first appear, and then they’re gone. They’ll tell to you some loving story, They’ll declare to you their love is true; Straight-way they’ll go and court some other, And that’s the love they’ll have for you. I wish I was some little sparrow, That I had wings, could fly so high; I’d fly away to my false true lover, And when he’s talkin’, I’d be by. But I am not some little sparrow, And neither have I wings to fly; I’ll set down here in grief and sorrow To weep and pass my troubles by. If I’d a-known before I courted, I never would have courted none; I’d a-lock’d my heart in a box of golden, And pinn’d it up with a silver pin.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Edmunds (1913 - 1986), "Come all you fair and tender ladies", published 1953, copyright © 1953. [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-12-03
Line count: 20
Word count: 147