[Verse 1]
Come all ye fair and tender ladies
Be careful how you court your men
They're like a star in a bright May morning
First appear and then they're gone

[Verse 2]
They'll tell to you some pleading story
They'll vow to you some downright lie
Straight away they'll go and court another
Let that other one pass you by

[Verse 3]
If I'd have known before I courted
That love was such a killing crime
I would locked my heart in a box of golden
Tied it up with a silver twine

[Verse 4]
He took my heart just as it blossomеd
And crushed it through his lily-white hand
Dear Lord, look down on mе, a sinner
If I ever trust another man

[Verse 5]
The soundest apple will soon be rotten
The warmest love will soon grow cold
Young men's advice is so uncertain
I pray young girls, don't you be so bold
[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 6]
If I had wings of some small sparrow
If I had wings to fly so high
I would fly away to my false true lover
While he talked I would sit and cry

[Verse 7]
But as it is, I am no sparrow
Nor have I no wings to fly
So I'll sit down all broken hearted
Try to pass all my troubles by