Come All Ye Fair — текст песни (Joan Baez)

Come all ye fair and tender maidens
Take warning how you court young men
They`re like a star of a summer`s morning
First they appear and then they`re gone.
They`ll tell to you some loving story
They`ll swear to you their love is true
Straightway they`ll go and court another
And that`s the love that they had for you.

If I`d a known before I courted
That love it was such a killin` thing
I`d lock my heart in a box of golden
And fastened it up with a silver chain.

O do you remember our days of courtin`
When your head lay upon my breast
You could make me believe with the falling of your eyes
That the sun rose in the west.

I wish I was a little sparrow
And I had wings and I could fly
I`d fly away to my own true lover
And when he speaks I won`t deny.

But I am not no little sparrow
I have no wings neither can I fly
I`ll sit right down in my grief and sorrow
And let my troubles pass me by.

Come all ye fair and tender maidens
Take warning how you court young men
They`re like a star of a summer`s morning
First they appear and then they`re gone.