The Bonnie Boy-Mary O'Hara

[ti:The Bonnie Boy] [ar:Mary O'Hara] [al:Golden Ireland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Bonnie Boy - Mary O'Hara [00:08.32]The trees are growing high [00:11.59]My loving grass is growing green [00:15.58] [00:16.13]And many the cold and winter night [00:19.33]That I alone have been [00:22.77] [00:23.65]It is a cruel and beaten night [00:26.50]That I must lie alone [00:29.86]Oh the bonny boy is young [00:33.11] [00:33.77]But he's growing [00:36.68] [00:38.23]Oh father dear father [00:41.04]I think you did me wrong [00:42.88] [00:43.42]For to go and get me married [00:45.76]To one that is so young [00:48.14] [00:48.88]He is but sixteen years [00:51.13]And I am twenty-one [00:53.48]Oh the bonny boy is young [00:56.01]But he's growing [00:58.43] [00:59.48]Oh daughter dear daughter [01:02.46]I did not do you wrong [01:05.00]For to go and get you married [01:07.34]To one that is so young [01:09.79] [01:10.45]He will be a match for you [01:12.66]And I am dead and gone [01:15.34]Oh the bonny boy is young [01:17.90] [01:18.44]But he's growing [01:20.75] [01:22.91]Oh father dear father [01:25.76]I'll tell you what I'll do [01:28.22]I'll send my love to college [01:30.17]For another year or two [01:32.79] [01:33.40]And all around his college cap [01:35.61]I'll bind a ribbon blue [01:38.08]For to let the ladies know [01:40.54]That he's married [01:42.44] [01:44.58]A year it went by [01:46.86]And I passed the college wall [01:49.66]And saw the young collegians [01:52.14]A-playing at the ball [01:54.32] [01:54.92]I spiting mean amongst them [01:57.49]The fairest of them all [02:00.83]Oh my bonny boy was young [02:05.32]And still growing [02:08.28] [02:10.18]At the age of sixteen years [02:13.14]He was a married man [02:16.21]And at the age of seventeen [02:19.29]The father of a son [02:21.76] [02:22.78]But at the age of eighteen [02:25.43]All his graved grass grow green [02:29.20] [02:29.75]The cruel death put an end to his growing [02:36.31] [02:38.08]I'll buy my love a shroud [02:43.76]Of the ornamental brown [02:46.53] [02:47.21]And whilst they are making it [02:50.91]The tears they will run down [02:54.92] [02:55.87]It once I had a true love [02:59.09]But now he's lying low [03:03.28]And I'll nurse his bonny boy [03:07.31] [03:09.20]While he's growing