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"Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (a.k.a. "Tiny Sparrow" or "Little Sparrow") (Roud #451) is an American folk music ballad, originating from the Appalachian region. On the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Catalogue the earliest versions are from "Ballads and Songs Collected by The Missouri Folklore Society" by Henry Marvin Belden. The version by James Ashby from Missouri was collected in 1904 and from CH Williams in 1906. John Jacob Niles collected another version in 1912. The website "Second Hand Songs" lists about 100 versions.

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  • "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (a.k.a. "Tiny Sparrow" or "Little Sparrow") (Roud #451) is an American folk music ballad, originating from the Appalachian region. On the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Catalogue the earliest versions are from "Ballads and Songs Collected by The Missouri Folklore Society" by Henry Marvin Belden. The version by James Ashby from Missouri was collected in 1904 and from CH Williams in 1906. John Jacob Niles collected another version in 1912. The narrator, a woman, laments the falseness of men. She sadly remarks, "Oh if I were some little sparrow / And had I wings so I could fly / I'd fly away to my own true lover." In some versions she remembers his words "You could make me believe by the falling of your arm that the sun rose in the west". One of the earliest recordings was Jean Ritchie in 1948 It was recorded by the Carter Family in 1952 In 1957 Peggy Seeger recorded it on the album "Peggy Seeger" The website "Second Hand Songs" lists about 100 versions. The website "Deaddisc.com" lists 49 under the title "Come all Ye Fair and Tender Maidens" and a further7 under the title "Little Sparrow". The version by Peter Paul and Mary in 1963 on the album "Moving" got to number two in the Billboard charts. (Moving (Peter, Paul and Mary album)). It used the title "Tiny Sparrow".Ian and Sylvia recorded it on the Vanguard 1967 album "So Much For Dreaming" It got to number 130 in the US charts. (Ian & Sylvia). In 1967 Pete Seeger recorded it on the album "Waste Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love songs" The Chieftains recorded it in 2012 on "Voice of Ages" There are numerous other artists, including Joan Baez, Odetta, The Kingston Trio, Leon Bibb, Makem and Clancy, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, The Rankin Family, The Country Gentlemen, Murray Head, Dolly Parton, Gene Clark and Carla Olson. The song's title sometimes finds "Maidens" substituted for "Ladies", and "Come All Ye" or "Come All You" sometimes omitted. (en)
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  • "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" (a.k.a. "Tiny Sparrow" or "Little Sparrow") (Roud #451) is an American folk music ballad, originating from the Appalachian region. On the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Catalogue the earliest versions are from "Ballads and Songs Collected by The Missouri Folklore Society" by Henry Marvin Belden. The version by James Ashby from Missouri was collected in 1904 and from CH Williams in 1906. John Jacob Niles collected another version in 1912. The website "Second Hand Songs" lists about 100 versions. (en)
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