Lang-a-Growing-Ewan MacColl

[ti:Lang A-Growing (Live)] [ar:Ewan MacColl] [al:The 1960 Newport Folk Festival Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lang-a-Growing - Ewan MacColl [00:18.90]The trees they are ivied [00:24.33]The leaves they are green [00:27.38] [00:32.00]The times they are past [00:34.90]That we hae seen [00:38.70] [00:39.80]In the lang winger's nicht [00:43.27]It's I maun lien alane [00:48.10] [00:51.17]For my bonnie laddie's lang [00:54.04]Lang a-growing [00:57.26] [00:59.45]Oh feyther dear feyther [01:04.35]Ye done me muckle wrong [01:09.25] [01:11.65]For ye hae wedded me to a lad [01:14.79]That's aur young [01:17.11]For he is but twelve [01:20.68]And I am thirteen [01:25.50] [01:28.79]And my bonnie laddie is lang [01:33.00]Lang a-growing [01:35.58] [01:38.28]Oh feyther dear feyther [01:43.14]If you think it will fit [01:48.60] [01:50.85]We'll send him to the school [01:53.14]For a year or twa yet [01:56.63] [01:57.66]And we'll tie a green [01:59.89]Ribbon around his bonnet [02:04.48] [02:06.71]And that'll be a token [02:09.59]That he's married [02:12.28] [02:14.14]Oh feyther dear feyther [02:18.94]And if it pleases you [02:23.38] [02:26.29]I'll cut my lang hair upon my brue [02:32.65]And vest coat and breeks [02:36.71]I'll gladly put on [02:40.42] [02:44.40]And I to the school [02:47.07]Will gang with him [02:49.45] [02:51.90]In his twelfth year [02:56.95]He was a married man [03:02.14] [03:04.48]And in his thirteenth [03:07.27]He had gotten heer a son [03:10.52] [03:11.33]And in his fourteenth [03:15.78]His grave it grew green [03:21.97] [03:25.06]And that's put an end tae his growing