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