Fair and Tender Ladies

Carter Sisters

Written by Maybelle Carter

Key of C · Chords: I V ii

Verse 1

C
Come all ye fair and tender ladies
                                G7
Take warning how you court your men
               Dm               C
They're like a star on a summer morning
           Dm                      C
They first appear and then they're gone

Verse 2

They'll tell to you some loving story
                                           G7
And they make you think that they love you well
                  Dm                C
Then away they'll go and court some other
              Dm                C
And leave you there in grief to dwell

Verse 3

I wish I was on some tall mountain
                               G7
Where the ivy rock is black as ink
            Dm                      C
I’d write a letter to my false true lover
                 Dm               C
Whose cheeks are like the morning pink

Verse 4

Oh love is handsome love is charming
                              G7
And love is pretty while it's new
               Dm                 C
But love grows cold as love grows older
          Dm                C
And fades away like morning dew

Verse 5

          Dm                C
And fades away like morning dew