The trees they grow so high and the leaves they do grow green
And many a cold winter s night my love and I have seen.
Of a cold winter s nightmy loveyou and I alone have been
Whilst my bonny boy is younghe s a-gowing.
Growinggrowing
Whilst my bonny boy is younghe s a-gowing.

O fatherdearest fatheryou ve done to me great wrong
You ve tied me to a boy when you know he is too young.
O daughterdearest daughterif you wait a little while
A lady you shall be while he s growing.
Growinggrowing
A lady you shall be while he s growing.


I ll send your love to college all for a year or two
And then in the meantime he will do for you;
I ll buy him white ribbonstie them round his bonney waist
To let the ladies know that he s married.
Marriedmarried
To let the ladies know that he s married.


I went up to the college and I looked over the wall
Saw four and twenty gentlemen playing at bat and ball.
I called to my true lovebut they would not let hime come
All because he was a young boy and growing.
Growinggrowing
All because he was a young boy and growing.


At the age of sixteenhe was a married man
And at the age of seventeen he was a father to a son
And at the age of eighteen the grass grew over him
Cruel death soon put an end to his growing.
Growinggrowing
Cruel death soon put an end to his growing.


And now my love is dead and in his grave doth lie
The green grass grows o er him so veryvery high.
I ll sit and I ll mourn his fate until the day I die
And I ll watch o er his child while he s growing.
Growinggrowing
And I ll watch o er his child while he s growing.

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