Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies

Traditional

Key of G · Chords: I IV V ii

Verse 1

     G      C        G
Come all ye fair and tender ladies
     G       C             D
Take warning how you court your men
        D    Am7         G
They’re like a star on a summer morning
     G     Am7             D
They first appear and then they’re gone

Verse 2

        G    C           G
They’ll tell to you some loving story
    G                C                        D
And they’ll make you think that they love you well
    D    Am7            G
And away they’ll go and court some other
And leave you there in grief to dwell

Verse 3

I wish I was on some tall mountain
Where the ivy rocks were black as ink
    D     Am7            G
I’d write a letter to my false true lover
Whose cheeks are like the morning pink

Verse 4

  G    C              G
I wish I was a little sparrow
And I had wings to fly so high
    D   Am7               G
I’d fly to the arms of my false true lover
    G    Am7         D
And when he’d ask, I would deny

Verse 5

Oh 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