Lyr Req: Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies

Subject: come all ye fair and tender ladies
From: GUEST,Aoife
Date: 10 Jul 01 - 07:45 PM

does anyone know all the verses to this song? it was recorded by joan baez and also liam clancy, danu... etc.

thanks!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: come all ye fair and tender ladies
From: Jimmy C
Date: 10 Jul 01 - 07:59 PM

I have it by Katherine McKinnon, a fine singer from Nova Scotia, it should be in the DT. If not I will get them and post later.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: come all ye fair and tender ladies
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Jul 01 - 08:22 PM

If you were to type fair and tender ladies into the "Digitrad and Forum Search" box on the main Forum page, you would get a number of references to past discussions here, and to a file in the Digital Tradition database.  These would probably be the most useful:

Come all you fair and tender ladies  (6 verses(
Love Is Teasin'  (A bit shorter).

It's one of those songs which is largely made up of "floating" verses that attach themselves to lots of different songs, so a complete version probably doesn't exist, but you've got a start, now.  You might like to have a look at the entry at the  Traditional Ballad Index:

Fair and Tender Ladies,  which will also give you some useful clues, though you should pay no attention to the "earliest date" bit!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: come all ye fair and tender ladies
From: MMario
Date: 10 Jul 01 - 09:23 PM

As usual, Malcolm, you beat me to it, with more info then I had. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: come all ye fair and tender ladies
From: GUEST,walking eagle
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 03:11 PM

I also have this verse from a little known recording from Peggy Smith.

Do you remember our courtin' days When your head lay upon my breast? You could have made me believe by the fallin' of your arm That the sun rose in the west.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: come all ye fair and tender ladies
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 04:00 PM

Also in Folksong U.S.A. by John and Alan Lomax.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: come all ye fair and tender ladies
From: GUEST,Aoife
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 01:32 AM

thanks very much lads.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: come all ye fair and tender ladies
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 10:40 AM

Couldn't find it in Digital Traditions as "Fair and Tender Ladies," but found it as, "The Little Sparrow."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: come all ye fair and tender ladies
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 10:48 AM

I found it here. It was listed as Fair and Tender Ladies. (I searched for the word "tender.") It says it was recorded by Edna and Jean Ritchie. ;-)

This is not the exact tune I know, but still quite lovely.