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