Fair And Tender Ladies Lyrics - Manhattan Transfer

Come all ye fair and tender ladies 

Take warning how you board young men 

They're like a star on summer mornin' 

They'll thirst a fear and then they're gone 

They'll tell to you some lovin' story 

And they make you think that they love you well 

Then away they'll go and court some other 

And leave you there in grief to dwell 

I wish I was on some tall mountain 

Where the ivy rocks are black as ink 

I'd write a letter to my lost true lover 

Whose cheeks are like the mornin' pink 

For love is handsome, love is charming 

And love is pretty while it's new 

But love grows cold as love grows old 

And fades away like the mornin' dew 

And fades away like the mornin' dew 

And fades away like the mornin' dew