[Verse 1]
G C G
Come all ye fair and tender ladies
G C D
take warning how, you court young men.
D Am7 G
They're like a stars of a summer's 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
they'll make you think, that they love you true.
D Am7 G
Straight away they'll go, and court another
G Am7 D
and that's the love they had for you.
[Verse 3]
G C G
If I had known before I courted
G C D
I would have never courted none.
D Am7 G
I'd lock my heart in a box of golden
G Am7 D
and fasten it up with a silver pin.
[Verse 4]
G C G
Do you recall our days of courting?
G C D
When your head lay on my breast
D Am7 G
You'd make me believe by the falling of your arms
That the sun rose in the west.
[Verse 5]
G C G
I wish I was, a little sparrow
G C D
and I had wings with which to fly
D Am7 G
I'd fly away, to my false true lover
G Am7 D
and when he'd speak, I would deny.
[Verse 6]
G C G
But I am not a little sparrow
G C D
Neither have I wings to fly
D Am7 G
So here I'll sit in grief and sorrow
G Am7 D
And watch my troubles pass me by