| Author | Topic: Add: Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies | |
| Ed | Posted - 20 Nov 02 - 08:04 pm | |
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies Come all you fair and tender ladies Take warning how you court young men They're like bright stars of a summer's morning First they'll appear and then be gone They'll tell to you some loving story They will declare their love is true Straightway they'll go and court some other And that's the love that they have for you If I had known before I courted, That love had been so hard to win, I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden, And a-fastened if up with a silver pin I wish I were a little sparrow Or some of those that fly so high I'ld fly away to my false lover And when he'd talk I would be nigh But as it, I am no sparrow And niether have I wings to fly I'll sit down here in grief and sorrow I'll weep and pass my troubles by Source: Karples, M (1968) Eighty English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalacians London, Faber and Faber Notes: Sung by Mrs Jane Gentry. The text has been compiled from two other versions. Database entry is here Whilst this is included in a book of 'English' songs, all the versions that I know (or can find) are American. Are there any English sets? Ed | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 20 Nov 02 - 08:23 pm | |
I don't know Ed. I'd always assumed tis song was American. Jon | ||
| IanC | Posted - 21 Nov 02 - 12:01 pm | |
Er ... Ed. I think our Maud means English as in the language. :-) | ||
| Ed | Posted - 21 Nov 02 - 12:20 pm | |
No, Ian. It means songs of English (or at least British) origin. Ed | ||
| IanC | Posted - 22 Nov 02 - 10:03 am | |
OK ED. Perhaps she felt that it was a version of "The Water Is Wide"? :-) | ||