Key: E
Introduction:
Em D Am Em
Trees they grow high and the leaves they do grow green
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Many years that I my true love have seen
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Many an hour I watched him all alone
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He's young but he is daily growin'
Em D Am Em
Father, dear father, you done me great wrong
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You married me to a boy who is too young
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I'm twice twelve and he is just forteen
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He's young but he is daily growin'
Em D Am Em
Daughter, dearest daughter, I've done you no wrong
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I married you to a great Lord's son
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He'll be a man to you when I am dead and gone
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He's young but he is daily growin'
Em D Am Em
Father, dear father, if you see fit
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You send my love to college for one year yet
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Tie blue ribbons all around his head
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To let the ladies know that he's married
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One day I was looking from my father's castle' wall
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Saw the little boys all playing with their ball
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My own true love was the flower of them all
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He's young but he is daily growin'
Em D Am Em
Trees they grow high and the leaves they do grow green
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Many years that I my true love have seen
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Many an hour I watched him all alone
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He's young but he is daily growin'
Em D Am Em
Age of forteen he was a married man
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Age of fifteen a father of a son
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Age of sixteen on his grave the grass grew green
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Cruel death it put an end with growin'
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Cruel death it put an end with growin