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