Fair and Tender Ladies

My daddy was a handsome gambler he had a chain five miles long On every link a heart gets dangled of another maid he loved and wronged He told to you some loving story He'd make you think he'd leave them true But love grows cold as love grows older a

Come all you fair and tender ladies Take warning how you court your men There like a star on a summer morning They first appear and then there gone They'll tell to you some loving story Then they make you think that they love you well Then away they'