The Trees They Do Grow High-Pentangle

[ti:The Trees They Do Grow High] [ar:Pentangle] [al:Light Flight - The Anthology] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Trees They Do Grow High - Pentangle [00:15.15]The trees they grow high and the leaves they do grow green [00:17.13] [00:19.14]Many is the time my true love I've seen [00:23.27] [00:25.34]Many an hour I've watched him all alone [00:29.26] [00:30.75]He's young but he's daily growing [00:33.93] [00:40.28]Father dear father you've done me great wrong [00:44.69] [00:46.85]You have married me to a boy who is too young [00:50.95] [00:53.00]I'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen [00:58.54]He's young but he's daily growing [01:01.51] [01:07.69]Daughter dear daughter I've done you no wrong [01:12.03] [01:14.18]I've married you to a great Lord's son [01:17.91] [01:20.15]He'll be a man to you when I am dead and gone [01:23.96] [01:25.72]He's young but he's daily growing [01:28.60] [01:34.76]Father dear father if you see fit [01:38.82] [01:40.59]We'll send my love to college for one year yet [01:44.88] [01:46.84]Tie blue ribbons all around his head [01:51.05] [01:52.66]To let the ladies know that he's married [01:55.71] [02:01.23]One day I was looking over my father's castle wall [02:05.87] [02:07.74]Saw all the boys aplaying with the ball [02:11.77] [02:14.21]My own true love was the flower of them all [02:17.86] [02:19.45]He's young but he's daily growing [02:21.70] [02:51.87]At the age of fourteen he was a married man [02:55.87] [02:58.29]Age of fifteen the father of a son [03:01.81] [03:03.70]Age of sixteen on his grave the grass was green [03:08.01] [03:09.51]Cruel death had put an end to his growing [03:13.20] [03:18.34]I'll make my love a shroud at the hole in so fine [03:22.92] [03:24.79]Every stitch I put in it the tears come trickling down [03:28.76] [03:30.72]Once I had a true love but not narrow one [03:34.91] [03:36.44]But I'll watch out his son 'cause he's growing