Intro
G A G A Bm
[Verse 1]
A G F#m
The trees, they grow high, and the leaves, they do grow green
A E F#m
Many is the time my true love I've seen
G A Bm F#m
Many an hour I watched him all alone
A G
He's young but he's daily growing
[Verse 2]
Bm A G F#m
Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong
A E F#m
You have married me to a boy who is too young
G A Bm F#m
I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen
A G
He's young but he's daily growing
[Verse 3]
Bm A G F#m
Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong
A E F#m
I have married you to a great lord's son
G A Bm F#m
And he will be a man for you when I am dead and gone
A G
He's young but he's daily growing
[Interlude]
A G E A
[Verse 4]
Bm A G F#m
Father, dear father, if you see fit
A E F#m
We'll send him to college for another year yet
G A Bm F#m
I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head
A G
To let the maidens know that he is married
[Verse 5]
Bm A G F#m
One day I was looking over my father's castle wall
A E F#m
I spied all the boys playing with a ball
G A Bm F#m
And my own true love, he was the flower of them all
A G
He's young but he's daily growing
[Interlude]
A G E A
[Verse 6]
Bm A G F#m
And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day
A E F#m
They went into a hayfield for to have some sport and play
G A Bm F#m
And what they did there, oh, she never would declare
A G
But she never more complained of his growing
[Verse 7]
Bm A G F#m
At the age of fourteen he was a married man
A E F#m
At the age of fifteen, the father of my son
G A Bm F#m
At the age of sixteen, his grave, it was green
A G
And death had put an end to his growing
[Verse 8]
Bm A G F#m
I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love a shroud
A E F#m
And every stitch I put in it, the tears, they'll pour down
G A Bm F#m
And every stitch I put in it, how the tears, they will flow
A G
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing
[Outro]
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