The Trees They Do Grow High-Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick

[ti:The Trees They Do Grow High] [ar:Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick] [al:Martin Carthy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Trees They Do Grow High - Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick [00:06.62]Oh the trees they do grow high and the leaves [00:10.85]They do grow green [00:12.44] [00:13.41]And many the cold winter's night my love and I [00:18.04]Have seen [00:19.09] [00:19.76]On a cold winter's night my love you and I [00:23.58]Alone have been [00:26.60] [00:27.34]Oh my bonny boy is young but he's growing [00:32.50] [00:34.56]Growin' growin' [00:38.78]Oh my bonny boy is young but he's growing [00:44.16] [00:47.37]Oh father dear father you've done to me much harm [00:52.92] [00:53.89]For to go and get me married [00:57.08]To one who is so young [00:59.73] [01:00.39]For he is only sixteen years old and I am [01:04.72]Twenty one [01:06.09] [01:08.11]Oh my bonny boy is young but he's growing [01:13.62] [01:15.32]Growing growing [01:19.40]And oh my bonny boy is young but he's growing [01:25.63] [01:26.25]Oh daughter dear daughter I'll tell you what I'll do [01:32.04] [01:32.68]I'll send your love to college for another year or [01:37.90]Two [01:38.60] [01:39.21]And all around his college cap I'll tie a ribbon [01:43.84]Blue [01:45.64] [01:46.90]For to let the ladies know that he's married [01:53.99]Married married [01:58.48]To let the ladies know that he's married [02:05.26] [02:06.64]Now at the age of a sixteen he was a married [02:11.39]Man [02:12.47] [02:13.17]And at the age of seventeen the father to a [02:18.09]Son [02:18.91] [02:19.46]And at the age of eighteen the grass grew over [02:24.67]Him [02:26.51] [02:27.57]Cruel death soon put an end to his growing [02:33.91] [02:34.59]Growing growing [02:39.18]Cruel death soon put an end to his growing [02:46.72] [02:47.34]Oh now my love is dead and in his grave [02:52.00]Doth lie [02:53.23] [02:53.74]The green grass grows over him so very very high [02:59.51] [03:00.19]I'll sit here and mourn his death until the day [03:04.96]I die [03:06.13] [03:08.16]And I'll watch all o'er his child while he's growing [03:15.30]Growing growing [03:19.76]I'll watch all o'er his child while he's growing