The Trees They Grow High

The trees they grow high, the leaves they do grow green <br>
Many is the time my true love I've seen <br>
Many an hour I have watched him all alone <br>
He's young, but he's daily growing <br>
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Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong <br>
You have married me to a boy who is too young <br>
I'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen <br>
He's young, but he's daily growing <br>
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Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong <br>
I have married you to a great lord's son <br>
He'll be a man to you when I am dead and gone <br>
He's young, but he's daily growing <br>
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Father, dear father, if you see fit <br>
We'll send him to college for another year yet <br>
I'll tie blue ribbons all around his head <br>
To let the maidens know that he's married <br>
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One day I was looking o'er my father's castle wall <br>
I spied all the boys aplaying at the ball <br>
My own true love was the flower of them all <br>
He's young, but he's daily growing <br>
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At the age of fourteen, he was a married man <br>
At the age of fifteen, the father of a son <br>
At the age of sixteen, his grave it was green <br>
Cruel death had put an end to his growing <br>
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I'll buy my love some flannel and I will make a shroud<br>
With every stitch I put in it, the tears they will pour down <br>
With every stitch I put in it, how the tears will flow <br>
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing