IntroCD (x2)
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Come all ye fair and tender maidens
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Take warning how you court young men
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They're like a star of a summer's morning
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First they'll app-e-a-r and then they're gone.
verse 2CDCDCGEmG
They'll tell to y-ou some loving story
EmDCDCEm
They'll swear to y-ou their love is true
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Straightway they'll g - o and court another
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And that's the love that they had for you.
verse 3CDCDCGEmG
If I'd a kn-own before I courted
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That love it was such a killin' thing
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I'd lock my heart in a box of golden
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And fastened it up with a silver chain.
verse 4CDCDCGEmG
O do you rememb-er our days of courtin'
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When your head lay upon my breast
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You could make me believe with the falling of your eyes
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That the sun rose in the west.
Verse 5 CDCDCGEmG
I wish I w-a-s a little sparrow
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And I had wings and I could fly
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I'd fly away to my own true lover
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And when he speaks I won't deny.
Verse 6CDCDCGEmG
But I am not no little sparrow
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I have no wings neither can I fly
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I'll sit right do-wn in my grief and sorrow
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And let my troubles pass me by.
Verse 7CDCDCGEmG
Come all ye fair and tender maidens
EmDCDCEmC
Take warning how you court young men
DGEmGEmGEm
They're like a star of a summer's morning
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First they'll app-e-a-r and then they're gone.