Come all you fair and tender ladies Take warning how you court young men For they're like a star on a cloudy morning First they'll appear and then they're gone They'll tell to you some loving stories And they'll swear to you that their love is true Straight away they'll go and they'll court some other And that's the love they have for you Don't you remember our days of courting? You told me then that you loved me best You could make me believe with the falling of your arm That the sun rose in the west If I had known before I courted I never would have courted none I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden Fastened down with a silver pin So come all you fair and tender ladies Take warning how you court young men They're like a star on a cloudy morning First they'll appear and then they're gone 1