The Trees They Do Grow High
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The trees they grow high
The leaves they do grow green
Many is the time
My own true love I've seen
Many is the hour
I've watched him all alone
He is young but he's daily growing
Father dear father
You've done me great wrong
You've married me
To a boy who is too young
I am twice twelve
And he is but fourteen
He is young but he's daily growing
Daughter dear daughter
I've done you no wrong
I've married you
To a brave lord's son
He'll be a man to you
When I am dead and gone
He is young but he's daily growing
Father dear father
If you see fit
Send him off to college
For one year yet
I'll tie blue ribbons
All around his head
To let the ladies know he's married
One day as I was looking
O'er my father's garden wall
I spied the young boys
All playing with their ball
My own true love
He was the fairest of them all
He is young but he's daily growing
At the age of fourteen
He was a married man
At the age of fifteen
A father of a son
At the age of sixteen
On his grave the grass was green
Cruel death had put an end
To his growing
To his growing
I'll make my lover's shroud
Of the garden silk fine
Every stitch I stitch at it
The tears come trickling down
I once had a true love
But now nary a one
But I'll watch o'er his son
While he's growing
While he's growing