Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies

Written by: [Traditional]
Language: English
Comments: American folk ballad from the Appalachians. Cecil Sharp collected 18 versions of this ballad between 1916 and 1918 and published in his book "English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians". It is number 451 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song is also known as "Sparrow", "Tiny Sparrow" and "Little Sparrow".

Roscoe Holcomb deleted the opening two verses and recorded it in 1965 as "Willow Tree", which has led to subsequent cover performances.

Lyrics start off - "Come all ye fair and tender ladies, Take warning how you court your men...", later in song lyrics are "I wish I was a little sparrow and I had wings to fly so high..."

Not to be confused with Dolly Parton's Little Sparrow that starts off "Little sparrow, little sparrow, precious fragile little thing..."
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Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies written by [Traditional] English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Come All Fair Maids	Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo	1950
Fair and Tender Ladies	The Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle	March 1952
The Little Sparrow	Jean Ritchie	1954
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Gordon Heath et Lee Payant	1955
Come All You Fair & Tender Ladies	Robin Roberts	1956
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Julia Ann Gilmer	May 1957
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Herta Marshall	1957
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Terrea Lea	1957
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Peggy Seeger	1957
Fair and Tender Ladies	Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand & David Sear	1959	Live
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Leon Bibb	August 1960
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	The Travellers [CA]	1960
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Jane Morgan	1960
The Little Sparrow	Charley Waller, John Duffey, Eddie Adcock & The Country Gentlemen	1960
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	The Kingston Trio	February 1961
Little Sparrow	Obray Ramsey	1961
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Salli Terri	1961
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Molly Scott [US]	1961
Fair and Tender Ladies	Anita Carter	December 1962
Fair and Tender Ladies	Edna Ritchie	1962
Fair and Tender Ladies	Joseph Able Trivett	1962
Tiny Sparrow	Peter, Paul and Mary	January 1963
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Pete Seeger and The Hooteneers	April 1963
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Pernell Roberts	May 1963
Little Sparrow	The Halifax Three	August 1963
Fair and Tender Ladies	The Browns featuring Jim Edward Brown	December 1963
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Odetta	1963
Fair and Tender Ladies	Dave Van Ronk	October 1964
Fair and Tender Ladies	George Hamilton IV	1964
Fair and Tender Ladies	Mike Seeger	1964
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Girls	Buffy Sainte-Marie	February 1965
Fair and Tender Ladies	Hedy West	February 1965
Willow Tree	Roscoe Holcomb	1965
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Tina Lawton	March 1967
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Ian & Sylvia	April 1967
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Peggy and Mike Seeger	1968
Come All Ye Fair	Anki	1968
Little Sparrow	Sarah Hawkes	1968
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Tom & Smiley	1968
Fair and Tender Ladies	Marc Ellington	June 1969
Fair and Tender Ladies	The Hillmen	1969
Pretty Sparrow	Byard Ray & Obray Ramsey	1969
Little Sparrow	Iron Mountain String Band	1973
Fair and Tender Ladies	McPeak Brothers	June 1974
Fair and Tender Ladies	Happy Traum	1975
Little Sparrow	Betty Smith	1975
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Joan Baez	May 1976
Little Sparrow	Bluegrass Blend	1976
Come All Ye Tender Ladies	The Freemen	1976
Fair and Tender Ladies	Charlie McCoy	January 1979
Fair and Tender Ladies	The Boys from Indiana	1980
Fair and Tender Ladies	Mary McCaslin	April 15, 1981
Fair and Tender Ladies	The English Country Blues Band	1983
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Madeleine	1983
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Cullen Galyean, Bobby Harrison and The Virginia Mountain Boys	1983
Little Sparrow	Dellie Norton	1983
Fair and Tender Ladies	Grandpa Jones Family	May 23, 1985	Live
Fair and Tender Ladies	Peter Bellamy	1985
Fair and Tender Lady	Makem & Clancy	1986
Fair and Tender Ladies	Gene Clark & Carla Olson	1987
Fair and Tender Ladies	Virginia Rail	1987
Come All You Fair and Tender Maidens	David Bromberg	1989
Fair and Tender Ladies	The Rankin Family	November 7, 1990
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	The Dusing Singers	September 29, 1992
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Rune Hauge	1995	Unverified
Young and Tender Ladies	Blue Mountain	February 27, 2001
Fair and Tender Ladies	Black Twig Pickers	June 4, 2001
Fair and Tender Ladies	Rosanne Cash	2001
Fair and Tender Ladies	The Zodiacs [NO]	2002
Fair and Tender Ladies	Donna Ray Norton	June 1, 2003
Young and Tender Ladies	The Rockinghams	2003
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Elizabeth LaPrelle	2004
Fair and Tender Ladies	Kevin Slick	2004
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Gibb Todd	2004
Fair and Tender Ladies	Baby Grant Johnson, Charlie Parr & Rich Mattson (Charlie Parr)	2004	Unverified
Fair and Tender Ladies	The Peasall Sisters	September 6, 2005
Foreign Lander - Young & Tender Ladies	Amy & Karen	2005	Medley
Fair and Tender Ladies	Banjo Bill Cornett	2005	Released more than 10 years after its recording
Fair and Tender Ladies	Munnelly Flaherty Masure	June 12, 2006
Fair and Tender Ladies	Tim O'Brien with Lunasa	2006
Fair and Tender Ladies	Laura Brooke	2007
Come All You Young & Tender Ladies	Among the Oak & Ash	June 16, 2009
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	The Dorff Family	June 22, 2009
Fair and Tender Ladies	Lumiere	December 18, 2009
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Jill O'Hara	2009
Fair and Tender Ladies	Conway Savage	2009
Locust in the Willow	Crooked Still	May 18, 2010
Sparrow	Jon Boden	October 3, 2010
Fair and Tender Ladies	Johan Asherton	2010
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Robin Greenstein	2010
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Redbird	2011	Live
Young and Tender Ladies - Shady Grove	Stay Tuned String Band	2011	Medley
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	The Chieftains w/ Pistol Annies	February 21, 2012
Fair and Tender Ladies	The Mosstins	July 1, 2013
Fair and Tender Ladies	Birds on a Wire	May 16, 2014
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Rachel Eddy	July 14, 2014
Willow Tree	Okkervil River	December 4, 2015	Released more than 10 years after its recording
Tiny Sparrow	Cory Goodrich	2016
Come, All You Young Ladies	Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin	2016
Fair and Tender Ladies	Leo Koster Band	August 8, 2017
Fair & Tender Ladies	Kyle Ollah	June 23, 2018
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Bob Dylan	December 4, 2020	Released more than 10 years after its recording

Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies written by [Traditional] instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date
i	Fair and Tender Ladies	Joe Meadows & Buddy Griffin	1977
i	Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens	Psaltrio	2007
i	Come All You Fair and Tender Maidens	Kim Robertson	2009
i	Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	Craig Duncan	January 22, 2013
i	Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies	John Lehmann-Haupt	2017
i	Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Doug Smith	January 22, 2019
i	Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Steve Haines and the Third Floor Orchestra	2019

Negra estrella written by José Manuel Vidal Zapater Spanish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Negra estrella	Pic-Nic	1967	First release

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