Come All Ye Fair And Tender Maidens Chords

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Come All Ye Fair And Tender Maidens by Joan Baez is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords C, D, G, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
Text
16
Speed
  			
e|-------2-0-------| 
B|-----3-----1-----| 
G|---2---------2-0-| 
D|-0---------------| 
A|-----------------| 
E|-----------------| 

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. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante