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