The Trees They Do Grow High Lyrics
[Intro – Music plays]
[Verse]
The trees they grow high
The leaves they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I've seen
Many an hour I have watched him all alone
He's young
But he's daily growing
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Father, dear father
You've done me great wrong
You have married me to a boy who is too young
I'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen
He's young
But he's daily growing
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Daughter, dear daughter
I've done you no wrong
I have married you to a great lord's son
He'll make a lord for you to wait upon
He's young
But he's daily growing
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Father, dear father, if you see fit
We'll send him to college for one year yet
I'll tie blue ribbons all around his head
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To let the maidens know that he's married
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One day I was looking o'er my father's castle wall
I spied all the boys as playing with the ball
My own true love was the flower of them all
He's young, but he's daily growing
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At the age of fourteen, he was a married man
At the age of fifteen, the father of a son
At the age of sixteen, his grave it was green
And death had put an end to his growing
[Song Ends]
