Come all you fair and tender ladies   Take warning how you court young men   For they're like a star on a cloudy morning   First they'll appear and then they're gone      They'll tell to you some loving stories   And they'll swear to you that their love is true   Straight away they'll go and they'll court some other   And that's the love they have for you      Don't you remember our days of courting?   You told me then that you loved me best   You could make me believe with the falling of your arm   That the sun rose in the west      If I had known before I courted   I never would have courted none   I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden   Fastened down with a silver pin      So come all you fair and tender ladies   Take warning how you court young men   They're like a star on a cloudy morning   First they'll appear and then they're gone