Come All Ye Fair And Tender Maidens chords by Joan Baez

Chords with lyrics

(At various points in the song JB plays a riff in place of a bar of D MajorD C majorC)

e|-------2-0-------|
BB|-----3-----1-----|
G+G|---2---------2-0-|
D MajorD|-0---------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|

[Intro]
C majorC D MajorD (x2)
C majorC D MajorD

[Verse 1]
   C majorC   D MajorD C majorC D MajorD  C majorC   G+G   E minorEm G+G
Come all ye fair and tender maidens
E minorEm      D MajorD C majorC D MajorD   C majorC      E minorEm
 Take warning how  you court young men
C majorC    D MajorD   G+G E minorEm G+G   E minorEm    G+G    E minorEm
 They're like a star  of a summer's morning
G+G   E minorEm     C majorC A minorAm    C majorC      D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
 First they'll app-e-a-r and then they're gone.

[Verse 2]
    C majorC    D MajorD C majorC D MajorD   C majorC   G+G E minorEm G+G
They'll tell to y-ou some loving story
E minorEm        D MajorD C majorC D MajorD   C majorC    E minorEm
 They'll swear to y-ou their love is true
C majorC    D MajorD      G+G E minorEm G+G    E minorEm   G+G   E minorEm
 Straightway they'll g - o  and court another
G+G  E minorEm     C majorC  A minorAm     C majorC    D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
 And that's the love that they had for you.

[Verse 3]
   C majorC  D MajorD C majorC D MajorD  C majorC   G+G  E minorEm G+G
If I'd a kn-own before I courted
E minorEm      D MajorD C majorC D MajorD    C majorC    E minorEm
 That love it was  such a killin' thing
C majorC   D MajorD   G+G  E minorEm G+G   E minorEm   G+G   E minorEm
 I'd lock my heart  in a box of golden
G+G   E minorEm     C majorC A minorAm    C majorC   D MajorD  C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
 And fastened it up with a silver chain.

[Verse 4]
   C majorC   D MajorD  C majorC D MajorD   C majorC    G+G   E minorEm G+G
O do you rememb-er our days of courtin'
E minorEm     D MajorD C majorC D MajorD   C majorC   E minorEm
 When your head lay upon my breast
C majorC     D MajorD     G+G E minorEm G+G     E minorEm       G+G  E minorEm
 You could make me believe with the falling of your eyes
G+G E minorEm     C majorC A minorAm  C majorC   D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
   That the sun rose in the west.

[Verse 5]
   C majorC  D MajorD C majorC D MajorD  C majorC   G+G  E minorEm G+G
I wish I w-a-s a little sparrow
E minorEm     D MajorD C majorC D MajorD  C majorC      E minorEm  C majorC
 And I had wings and I could fly
  D MajorD  G+G E minorEm G+G    E minorEm    G+G    E minorEm
I'd fly away  to my own true lover
G+G  E minorEm   C majorC A minorAm   C majorC   D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
 And when he speaks I won't deny.

[Verse 6]
  C majorC  D MajorD C majorC D MajorD  C majorC   G+G   E minorEm G+G
But I am not  no little sparrow
E minorEm     D MajorD C majorC D MajorD      C majorC   E minorEm
 I have no wings  neither can I fly
C majorC   D MajorD     G+G E minorEm G+G   E minorEm    G+G    E minorEm
 I'll sit right do-wn in my grief and sorrow
G+G  E minorEm   C majorC  A minorAm  C majorC    D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
 And let my troubles pass me by.

[Verse 7]
   C majorC   D MajorD C majorC D MajorD  C majorC   G+G  E minorEm G+G
Come all ye fair and tender maidens
E minorEm      D MajorD C majorC D MajorD  C majorC      E minorEm  C majorC
Take warning how  you court young men
    D MajorD   G+G E minorEm G+G   E minorEm    G+G    E minorEm
They're like a star  of a summer's morning
G+G   E minorEm     C majorC A minorAm    C majorC      D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC D MajorD