Fair and Tender Ladies

Come all you fair and tender ladies
 Be careful how you court young men
 They're like the stars on a summer's morning
 They first appear and then they're gone
 They'll tell to you some flattering story
 And then declare they love you well
 Away they'll go and court some other
 And leave you hear in grief to dwell
 I wish to the lord I'd never seen him
 Or in his cradle he had died
 To think a fair and tender lady
 Did fall in love and was denied
 I wish I was a little sparrow
 And one of them that could fly so high
 I would fly away to my true love's dwelling
 When he would speak I'd be close by
 But I am none of those little sparrows
 And none of those that fly so high
 So I'll sit down in grief and sorrow
 And hope my morrow will pass by
 Oh love is handsome and love is charming
 And love's a beauty when first it's new
 But love grows older and love grows colder
 It fades away like the morning dew
 Come all you fair and tender ladies
 Be careful how you court young men
 They're like the stars on a summer's morning
 They first appear and then they're gone