Come all ye fair and tender ladies

Take warning how you court young men

They're like a star on a summer morning

They first appear and then they're gone

They'll tell to you some lovin' story

And make you think they love you well

Then away they'll go to court some other

And leave you there in grief to dwell

I wish I was a little sparrow

And I had wings to fly so high

I'd fly away to my false true lover

And when she'd ask I would deny

Love is handsome love is charming

And love is pretty while it's new

But love grows cold as love grows older

And fades away like morning dew

Come all ye fair and tender ladies

Take warning how you court young men

They're like a star on a summer morning

They first appear and then they're gone

And then they're gone