The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19342   Message #836633
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
28-Nov-02 - 01:31 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Fair and Tender Ladies / Little Sparrow
Subject: RE: Tune Req: fair and tender ladies
CB- Those two verses may be "floating" ones- I know that the first one, "O love is handsome..." is generally the last verse of "Waly, Waly," aka, "The Water is Wide." The second verse you gave is also in a few songs, but I never heard it as part of, Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies."