Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies (Rain And Snow, 2004)
Come all ye fair and tender ladies, Take warning how you court young men, They’re like the stars on a summer’s morning, First they appear and then they’re gone.
My daddy is a handsome devil, He’s got a chain five miles long, And on every link a heart does dangle, Of another maid he’s loved and wronged.
If I’d a known before I courted, I never would have courted none, I’d a locked my heart in a box of golden, And fastened it up with a silver pin. I wish I were a little sparrow, And I had wings and I could fly, I’d fly away to my own false lover, And when he’s talking I’d draw nigh,
But I am not a little sparrow, I have no wings, nor can I fly, I’ll sit right here, and weep in sorrow, And try to pass my troubles by.