Folk Songs from the Southern Highlands - online songbook
Southern Appalachians songs with lyrics, commentary & some sheet music.
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79 YOUNG LADIES
(Little Sparrow)
See Wyman and Brockway, "Lonesome Tunes," p. 5 5; Josephine McGill, "Folk Songs of the Kentucky Mountains," p. 23; Shearin and Combs, p. 26; Campbell and Sharp, No. 65; Cox, No. 140; Journal, XXIX, 183; W. J. Raine's "Land of the Saddle Bags," p. 124; Thomas, p. 82.
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"Fair and Tender Ladies." Obtained from Miss Lib Franklin, Crossnore, Avery County, North Carolina, July, 1929. |
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1. Come, all ye fair and tender ladies, Take warning how you court young men; They are like bright stars of a summer morning; They first appear and then they are gone.
2. They'll tell to you some loving stories And make you think they love you true; Straightway they'll go and court another And that is the love they have for you.
3.1 wish I never had a-courted;
If I had known that love was so hard to gain, I'd lock my heart in a box of gold And fasten it up with a silver chain.
4.1 wish I were a little sparrow Or some of those that fly so high; I'd fly away to my false true lover And while he'd talk, I would be by. |
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