Lyrics Come All Ye Fair And Tender Maidens - Joan Baez

Come All Ye Fair And Tender Maidens

Come all ye fair and tender maidens
Take warning how you court young men
They’re like a star of a summer’s morning
First they appear and then they’re gone
They’ll tell to you some loving story
They’ll swear to you their love is true
Straightway they’ll go and court another
And that’s the love they had for you
If I had known before I courted
I never would have courted none
I’d lock my heart in a box of golden
And fastened it up with a silver key
Oh, do you remember our days of courtin'
When your head lay upon my breast
You could make me believe with the falling of your eyes
That the sun rose in the west
I wish I was a little sparrow
And I had wings and I could fly
I’d fly away to my own true lover
And when he speaks I won’t deny
But I am not no little sparrow
I have no wings neither can I fly
I’ll sit right down in my grief and sorrow
And let my troubles pass me by