Buffy Sainte-Marie - Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies

come all ye fair and tender ladies
be carefull how you court young man
men, they're like a stars on a summer morning
first they appear and then they're gone

If I had known before I courted
I'd never would have courted man, man
I'd wrapped my heart in a box of golden
and fastened her up with a silver pin.

Do you remember when first we're courting
And your head lay upon my breast
You could make me believe with falling of your arm
That the sun rose in the West 2.40


I wish I was a little sparrow, (swallow)
That I had wings and I could fly,fly
I'd fly away to my false true-lover,3.
And what he said now I would deny.

But I'm not not little sparrow,
I have no wings neither can I fly
So I set alone in my grief and sorrow,
And try to pass these tears apart.

come all ye fair and tender ladies
be carefull how you court young man
men, they're like a stars on summer morning
first they appear and then they're gone