Come All Ye Fair Lyrics - Joan Baez

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 that they had for you. 

If I'd a known before I courted 

That love it was such a killin' thing 

I'd lock my heart in a box of golden 

And fastened it up with a silver chain. 

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O 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. 

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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.