Lyr/Chords Req: Fair & Tender Ladies?

01 Feb 02 - 02:18 AM (#639854)
Subject: Fair & Tender Ladies?
From: Jeremiah McCaw

Anybody have chords & lyrics for "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies? A look in the DT under "Fair and Tender Ladies" brings it up, but clicking on the title results in a "document not found" thing.

signed, At sea in technology *sigh*

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01 Feb 02 - 02:27 AM (#639855)
Subject: Lyr Add: COME ALL YE FAIR AND TENDER LADIES
From: Amergin

yeah I think there are some server problems going on tonight...just tried it myself...oh well...

COME ALL YE FAIR AND TENDER LADIES

Come all ye fair and tender ladies
Take warning how you court young men
They're like a bright star on a cloudy morning
They will first appear and then they're gone.

They'll tell to you some loving story
To make you think that they love you true
Straightway they'll go and court some other
Oh that's the love that they have for you.

I wish I were some little sparrow
And I had wings and I could fly
I would fly away to my false true lover
And while he'll talk I would sit and cry.

But I am not some little sparrow
I have no wings nor can I fly
So I'll sit down here in grief and sorrow
And try to pass my troubles by.

I wish I had known before I courted
That love had been so hard to gain
I'd of locked my heart in a box of golden
And fastened it down with a silver chain.

Young men never cast your eye on beauty
For beauty is a thing that will decay
For the prettiest flowers that grow in the garden
How soon they'll wither, will wither and fade away.

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01 Feb 02 - 04:46 AM (#639884)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Fair & Tender Ladies?
From: PaulM

You can find a version of the chords here

The words are quite different from the DT version but the tune is pretty much the same.

Paul

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01 Feb 02 - 05:31 AM (#639901)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Fair & Tender Ladies?
From: Wolfgang

It's not a server problem. The DT search (and clicking on a title in the title list amounts to that) finds no word (or title with such a word) from those staring with 'faa' to those staring with 'fam'. That's why not a single song that has 'fair' in it shows up in a search containing 'fair'. You hardly could have known that, Jeremiah. The Super search doesn't have this problem.

Wolfgang

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01 Feb 02 - 05:35 AM (#639904)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Fair & Tender Ladies?
From: Wolfgang

Here's the DT version (found by [and tender ladies] which avoids the problem)

Wolfgang

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01 Feb 02 - 03:31 PM (#640181)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Fair & Tender Ladies?
From: Willa

Hi, Amergin. Interesting to see the version you posted; it differs just a little from the one I sing.
Jeremiah. These are the chords on my copy.

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01 Feb 02 - 03:34 PM (#640184)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: COME ALL YE FAIR AND TENDER LADIES
From: Willa

Oops! Something missing there!
Come all ye fair and tender ladies CFCG7 CG7CG7CFC
Take warning how you court young men CFCG7 CG7CG7CF
They're like a star on a summer's morning FCG7C CG7CG7C
First they'll appear and then they're gone. C F G7FC G7

They'll tell to you some loving story
And they'll declare their love is true
Straightway they'll go and love another
And that's the love that they have for you.

O, don't you remember our days of courting
When your head lay upon my breast?
You could make me believe by the falling of your arm
That the sun rose in the west.

If I had known before I courted,
That love had been so hard to win,
I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden,
And fastened if up with a silver pin.

I wish I were some little sparrow
And I had wings and I could fly
I would fly away to my false true love
r And when he'd speak, I would deny.

But I am not some little sparrow
I have no wings nor can I fly
So I'll sit right down in grief and sorrow
Until my troubles pass me by.

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01 Feb 02 - 04:00 PM (#640195)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Fair & Tender Ladies?
From: JudyR

Willa's version is the one I heard and used to sing so long ago in the 60's. Must be the Joan Baez one, then (sigh, well, we didn't know any better!) Or was there a slightly more obscure one going around -- probably lots of groups were singing it, including the Scottish singers coming up around that time.

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01 Feb 02 - 04:30 PM (#640213)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Fair & Tender Ladies?
From: CraigS

I've been singing a version for years from American Folk Songs by A Lomax, which Mr Lomax freely admits is a composite of a number of versions. There must be dozens of versions if you include Silver Dagger, which is similar in subject and metre.

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01 Feb 02 - 04:33 PM (#640215)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Fair & Tender Ladies?
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)

Amergin's lyric is the same as mine (Ritchie Family)except for the last two lines. Our last verse:

Young man ne'er cast your eye on beauty,
For beauty is a thing that will decay;
I've seen many a fair and a bright sunny morning
Turn into a dark and deludinous day.

I usually sing this song a capella, as it's a slow minor melody with decorations as-performer-wills, and seems better unaccompanied by an instrument. However, there are several different variants of this with tunes which need instrumental accompiment. The Carter Family version, for instance.

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01 Feb 02 - 04:39 PM (#640223)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Fair & Tender Ladies?
From: Willa

Yes, Kytrad, I sing it acapella. Deludinous; what a beautiful word! JudyR. I copied the version down in about 1974, and haven't kept source details, except that it was given as U.S.A. You may be correct in thinking that it was a 60's version.

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