The Trees They Do Grow High

Em Em Bm Oh the trees they do grow high and the leaves they do grow green, Bm A And many's the cold winter's night my love and I have seen. G D Em Bm On a cold winter's night my love you and I alone have been. Bm Em A Em Oh my bonny boy is young but he's growing, G D Growing, growing, Em Bm Em My bonny boy is young but he's growing Em Bm "Oh father, dear father, you've done to me much harm, Bm A For to go and get me married to one who is so young. G D Em Bm For he is only sixteen years and I am twenty-one, Bm Em A Em Oh my bonny boy is young but he's growing, G D Growing, growing, Em Bm Em My bonny boy is young but he's growing." Em Bm "Oh daughter, dear daughter, I'll tell you what I'll do, Bm A I'll send your love to college for another year or two. G D Em Bm And all around his college cap I'll tie a ribbon blue, Bm Em A Em For to let the ladies know that he's married, G D Married, married, Em Bm Em To let the ladies know that he's married." Em Bm Now at the age of sixteen he was a married man, Bm A And at the age of seventeen the father to a son, G D Em Bm And at the age of eighteen the grass grew over him. Bm Em A Em Cruel death soon put an end to his growing, G D Growing, growing, Em Bm Em Cruel death soon put an end to his growing. Em Bm And now my love is dead and in his grave doth lie, Bm A The green grass grows over him so very very high. G D Em Bm I'll sit here and mourn his death until the day I die Bm Em A Em And I'll watch all o'er his child while he's growing, G D Growing, growing, Em Bm Em I'll watch all o'er his child while he's growing.