The 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-growing

Growing, growing, my bonny boy is young he's a-growing

Oh father, dearest father, you've done to me great wrong

You've tied me to a boy when you know he is too young

Oh 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 meanwhile he will do for you

I'll buy him white ribbons tie them 'round his bonny 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 for my true love, but they would not let him come

All for he was a young boy and growing

Growing, growing, all for 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 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 all o'er his child while he's growing

Growing, growing, I'll watch all o'er his child while he's growing