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Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
The Chieftains
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The W
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Pistol Annies
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Come all ye fair and tender ladies
take warning how you court young men
they're like a star on summer morning
they first appear and then they're gone
They'll tell to you some loving story
and make you think they love you so well
then away they'll go and court some other
and leave you there in grief to dwell
I wish i was on some tall mountain
where the ivy rocks are black as ink
i'd write a letter to my lost true lover
whose cheeks are like the morning pink
For love is handsome, love is charming
and love is pretty while it's new
but love grows cold as love grows old
and fades away like the mornin' dew
Come all ye fair and tender ladies
take warning how you court young men
they're like a star on summer morning
they first appear and then they're gone
they first appear and then they're gone