Intro
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[Verse 1]
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Come all you fair and tender ladies
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Take warning how you court young men
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They're like a star on a cloudy morning
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First they'll appear and then they're gone
[Verse 2]
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They'll tell to you some loving story
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They'll swear to you their love is true
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Straightway they'll go and court another
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And that's the love they had for you
[Verse 3]
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Oh, don't you remember our days of courting?
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You told me that you love me the best
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You could make me believe by the fall of your eyes
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That the sun rose in the west
[Verse 4]
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If I had known before I courted
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That love was such a killing thing
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I'd lock my heart in a box of golden
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And fasten it with a silvery pin
[Verse 5]
D# G#
Come all you fair and tender ladies
D# Fm
Take warning how you court young men
D# G# Cm
They're like a star on a cloudy morning
C# G#/C A#m
First they'll appear and then they're gone