Come all ye young and tender maidens <br />Take warning how you court young men <br />They're like a star on a cloudy morning <br />They first appear and then they're gone <br /><br />They'll tell to you some lovely story <br />They'll tell to you that their hearts are true <br />Straight way to some other girl and court her <br />And that's the love they have for you. <br /><br />I wish I was a little sparrow <br />A sparrow's wings and I could fly <br />I'd fly away to my own true lover <br />While he would talk, I would deny <br /><br />But I am not a little sparrow <br />I've got no wings and I can't fly <br />I'll sit right down in grief and sorrow <br />And try and pass my sorrows by. <br /><br />If I'd have known before I'd courted <br />That love could be so hard to win <br />I'd have locked my heart with a key of golden <br />And tied it down with a silver pin.
