The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19342   Message #836246
Posted By: Coyote Breath
28-Nov-02 - 01:26 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Fair and Tender Ladies / Little Sparrow
Subject: RE: Tune Req: fair and tender ladies
Oh love is handsome and love is charming
And love's a treasure when first it's new
But love grows cold as love grows older
And quickly fades like morning dew.

Do you remember out days of courting
When you laid your head all on my breast
You could make me believe by the moving of your arms
That the sun rose in the West.

I can't recall where I heard those two verses but I love the poetry of them, they might be from some Ozark variant. I have found that there are a few songs from here in the Ozarks which have different words and sometimes different tunes than songs with the same titles from the Cumberland plateau or Apalachia. Kytrad's tune is the one I'm familiar with. My mother knew of another tune which she claimed was from Cornwall (where her family was from) and of course I can't recall it right now but promise to try to post it when I do remember.

CB