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Come All Ye Fair & Tender Maidens by Joan Baez
Come All Ye Fair & Tender Maidens
Capo:3rd fret
(At various points in the song JB plays a riff in place of a bar of D C)
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A|-----------------|
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[Intro]
C D (x2)
C D
[Verse 1]
C D C D C G Em G
Come all ye fair and tender maidens
Em D C D C Em
Take warning how you court young men
C D G Em G Em G Em
They're like a star of a summer's morning
G Em C Am C D C D C D C D
First they'll app-e-a-r and then they're gone.
[Verse 2]
C D C D C G Em G
They'll tell to y-ou some loving story
Em D C D C Em
They'll swear to y-ou their love is true
C D G Em G Em G Em
Straightway they'll g - o and court another
G Em C Am C D C D C D C D
And that's the love that they had for you.
[Verse 3]
C D C D C G Em G
If I'd a kn-own before I courted
Em D C D C Em
That love it was such a killin' thing
C D G Em G Em G Em
I'd lock my heart in a box of golden
G Em C Am C D C D C D C D
And fastened it up with a silver chain.
[Verse 4]
C D C D C G Em G
O do you rememb-er our days of courtin'
Em D C D C Em
When your head lay upon my breast
C D G Em G Em G Em
You could make me believe with the falling of your eyes
G Em C Am C D C D C D C D
That the sun rose in the west.
[Verse 5]
C D C D C G Em G
I wish I w-a-s a little sparrow
Em D C D C Em C
And I had wings and I could fly
D G Em G Em G Em
I'd fly away to my own true lover
G Em C Am C D C D C D C D
And when he speaks I won't deny.
[Verse 6]
C D C D C G Em G
But I am not no little sparrow
Em D C D C Em
I have no wings neither can I fly
C D G Em G Em G Em
I'll sit right do-wn in my grief and sorrow
G Em C Am C D C D C D C D
And let my troubles pass me by.
[Verse 7]
C D C D C G Em G
Come all ye fair and tender maidens
Em D C D C Em C
Take warning how you court young men
D G Em G Em G Em
They're like a star of a summer's morning
G Em C Am C D C D C D C D
First they'll app-e-a-r and then they're gone.
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