[ti:The Trees They Do Grow High] [ar:Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly] [al:English Madrigals and Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Trees They Do Grow High - Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly [00:00.25]Lyrics by:Traditional [00:00.51]Composed by:Traditional [00:00.77]The trees they grow so high [00:03.42]And the leaves they do grow green [00:07.06]And many a cold winter's night my love and I have seen [00:13.12]Of a cold winter's night my [00:16.17]Love you and I alone have been [00:19.64]Whilst my bonny boy is young he's a-growing [00:26.57]Growing growing [00:29.06]Whilst my bonny boy is young he's a-growing [00:36.75]O father dearest father you've done to me great wrong [00:42.46]You've tied me to a boy [00:45.05]When you know he is too young [00:47.97]O daughter dearest daughter if you wait a little while [00:54.74]A lady you shall be while he's growing [01:00.93]Growing growing [01:03.51]A lady you shall be while he's growing [01:11.24]I'll send your love to college all for a year or two [01:16.98]And then in the meantime he will do for you [01:22.72]I'll buy him white ribbons [01:25.86]Tie them round his bonny waist [01:28.73]To let the ladies know that he's married [01:34.91]Married married [01:37.51]To let the ladies know that he's married [01:45.55]I went up to the college and I looked over the wall [01:50.89]Saw four and twenty gentlemen playing at bat and ball [01:56.42]I called to my true love [01:59.23]But they would not let him come [02:01.99]All because he was a young boy and growing [02:08.45]Growing growing [02:11.00]All because he was a young boy and growing [02:18.16]At the age of sixteen he was a married man [02:23.14]And at the age of seventeen [02:26.04]He was a father to a son [02:28.89]And at the age of eighteen the grass grew over him [02:34.82]Cruel death soon put an end to his growing [02:41.33]Growing growing [02:44.12]Cruel death soon put an end to his growing [02:53.37]And now my love is dead and in his grave doth lie [03:00.23]The green grass grows o'er him so very very high [03:07.91]I'll sit and I'll mourn his fate until the day I die [03:15.31]And I'll watch o'er his child while he's growing [03:23.22]Growing growing [03:26.40]And I'll watch o'er his child while he's growing