Bonnie Boy Is Young-Judy Collins

[ti:Bonnie Boy Is Young] [ar:Judy Collins] [al:The Judy Collins Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bonnie Boy Is Young - Judy Collins [00:12.29]The trees they grow tall [00:15.90]The grass is growing green [00:18.28] [00:20.03]Many a cold and winter night that I alone have been [00:25.58] [00:27.14]It is a cold and cruel night when I must lie alone [00:33.01] [00:34.82]The Bonny Boy is young but he is growing [00:40.06] [00:45.60]Oh father dear father I think you done me wrong [00:52.03] [00:53.15]To go and get me married to one who is so young [00:59.83] [01:01.58]For he is only sixteen years and I am twenty one [01:07.38] [01:08.69]The bonny boy is young but he's growing [01:13.91] [01:20.18]Oh daughter dear daughter I did not do you wrong [01:26.72] [01:27.60]For I have married you to a rich man's son [01:34.50] [01:35.31]And he shall be a match for thee when I am dead and gone [01:41.73] [01:44.11]He is young but he is daily growing [01:48.54] [01:54.83]Oh father dear father I'll tell you what I'll do [02:00.45] [02:01.88]I'll send the boy to college for another year or two [02:08.00] [02:09.19]And all around his college cap I'll bind a ribbon blue [02:15.55] [02:17.17]For to let the ladies know that he's married [02:23.42] [02:29.10]A year it went by and I passed the college wall [02:34.83] [02:36.14]And saw the young collegians a playing at the ball [02:42.33] [02:43.82]Amidst them was my own true love [02:47.31] [02:48.38]The fairest of them all [02:50.94] [02:52.06]He was young but he was daily growing [02:56.74] [03:03.48]At the age of sixteen he was a married man [03:09.66] [03:10.40]And at the age of seventeen he was the father of a son [03:16.45] [03:18.01]At the age of eighteen his grave had all grown green [03:24.70] [03:26.69]And the death put an end to his growing [03:31.31] [03:37.33]I'll make my love a shroud of ornamental brown [03:43.26] [03:44.75]And whilst I am a making it the tears they will run down [03:51.36] [03:53.18]For once I had my own love now he's lying low [03:59.58] [04:00.71]And I'll nurse his bonny boy while he's growing