Fair And Tender Ladies

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My daddy was a handsome gambler he had a chain five miles long
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On every link a heart gets dangled of another maid he loved and
wronged
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He told to you some loving story
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He'd make you think he'd leave them true
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But love grows cold as love grows older  and fades away like morning
dew
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I'd rather be in some dark hollow where the sun refused to shine
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Than to live here in    Missouri with your memory always on my mind
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Come all ye fair and tender ladies take warning how your court your
man
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They're like a star on a summer morning
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First they appear then they're gone again

(solo)

            Bm               A                  Bm                 F#m
Come all ye fair and tender ladies take warning how your court your
man
               D      Bm              E
They're like a star on a summer morning
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First they appear then they're gone again