Come all ye fair and tender ladies. 来吧，你们都公平招标的女士。

Be careful how you court young men. 小心你如何打官司的年轻男子。

They're like a star on a summer's morning. 他们就像在一个夏天的早晨的明星。

They'll first appear and then they're gone. 他们会先出现，然后他们走了。

   

They'll tell you some loving story 他们会告诉你一些爱情故事

They'll declare to you their love is true 他们会向你声明自己的爱是真实的

Then they will go and court some other 然后，他们会去和法院其他

And that's the love they have for you 这就是他们对你的爱

   

Do you remember our days of courting 你还记得我们求爱的日子

When your head lay upon my breast 当你的头挡着我的乳房

You could make me believe with falling of your arm 你可以让我相信有下降的手臂

That the sun rose in the West 太阳上升在西

   

I wish I was a little sparrow, 我希望我是一个小麻雀，

And I had wings with which to fly 我有翅膀与飞行

Right over to see my false true-lover, 右键过去一看，我的假真恋人，

And when he's talking I'd be nigh. 而当他在说我很亲近。

   

But I'm not a little sparrow, 但我不是一个小麻雀，

I have no wings with which to fly 我没有翅膀的飞翔

So I sit here in grief and sorrow, 所以，我坐在这里的痛苦和悲伤，

To weep and pass my troubles by. 哭泣，并通过我的烦恼。

   

If I had known before I courted 如果我早知道以前我求婚

that love was such a killing thing 爱情是这样的杀人事情

I'd a-locked my heart in a box of golden 我倒是在一个盒子里的黄金甲锁定我的心脏

and fastened it up with a silver pin. 并把它系了一个银色的针。