Come all ye fair and tender maidens
Take warning how you court your men
They're like a star on a summer's evening
First they appear and then they're gone
They'll tell to you some loving story
They'll tell to you that their love is true
And then they'll go and they'll court some other
And that's the love that they had for you
If I had known before I courted
That love would bring such sorrow and pain
I'd have locked my heart in a box of gold
Forever there it would remain