The Trees They Grow So High lyrics
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Artist: Sarah Brightman Album: Trees They Grow So High
Lyrics
The trees they grow so high and the leaves they do grow green And many a cold winter's night my love and I have seen Of a cold winter's night, my love, you and I alone have been Whilst my bonny boy is young, he's a-gowing Growing, growing Whilst my bonny boy is young, he's a-gowing
O father, dearest father, you've done to me great wrong You've tied me to a boy when you know he is too young O daughter, dearest daughter, if you wait a little while A lady you shall be while he's growing Growing, growing A lady you shall be while he's growing
I'll send your love to college all for a year or two And then in the meantime he will do for you; I'll buy him white ribbons, tie them round his bonney waist To let the ladies know that he's married Married, married To let the ladies know that he's married
I went up to the college and I looked over the wall Saw four and twenty gentlemen playing at bat and ball I called to my true love, but they would not let hime come All because he was a young boy and growing Growing, growing All because he was a young boy and growing
At the age of sixteen, he was a married man And at the age of seventeen he was a father to a son And at the age of eighteen the grass grew over him Cruel death soon put an end to his growing Growing, growing Cruel death soon put an end to his growing
And now my love is dead and in his grave doth lie The green grass grows o'er him so very, very high I'll sit and I'll mourn his fate until the day I die And I'll watch o'er his child while he's growing Growing, growing And I'll watch o'er his child while he's growing
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