G A Bm D  2x

D           A        G      D
Come all ye fair and tender ladies,
             A       F#m        Bm
Take warning how you court your men.
                 F#m        Bm       D   F#m
They're like the stars on a summer's mornin'
                Bm       F#m          A
First they'll appear and then they're gone.
 
D        A       G      D
If I had known before I courted
             A     F#m        Bm
What all his lyin' could have done
                   F#m        Bm     D  F#m 
I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden
          Bm         F#m     A
And never would have courted none. 

D        A      G    D
I wish I were a tiny sparrow
          A         F#m     Bm
And I had wings and I could fly.
         F#m       Bm       D  F#m
I'd fly away to my own true lover
             Bm    F#m     A
And all he'd ask I would deny. 

 D       A     G    D
Alas I'm not a tiny sparrow
           A         F#m   Bm
I have not wings nor can I fly
            F#m      Bm        D  F#m
And on this earth in grief and sorrow
             Bm  F#m  A
I am bound until I    die. 

D           A        G      D
Come all ye fair and tender ladies,
             A       F#m        Bm
Take warning how you court your men.
                 F#m        Bm       D   F#m
They're like the stars on a summer's mornin'
                Bm       F#m          A
First they'll appear and then they're gone.