The Trees They Grow So High - Sarah Brightman

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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 night my love

You and I alone have been

Whilst my bonny boy is young he's a-gowing

Growing growing

Whilst my bonny boy is young he's a-gowing

O father dearest father

You've done to me great wrong

You've tied me to a boy

When you know he is too young

O daughter dearest daughter if you wait a little while

A lady you shall be while he's growing

Growing growing

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 ribbons

Tie them round his bonney waist

To let the ladies know that he's married

Married married

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 love

But they would not let hime come

All because he was a young boy and growing

Growing growing

All because he was a young boy and growing

At the age of sixteen he 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

Growing growing

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 very very 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

Growing growing

And I'll watch o'er his child while he's growing