Tonart: C minor•
Intro 1
Ab
Bb
Ab
Bb
Cm
Csus4
Verse 1
Csus4
Cm
The trees, they grow high,
and the leaves, they do grow green
Csus2
Many is the time my true
Many an hour I watched
Csus2
Cm
him all alone
Csus4
He's young but he's
Cm
Verse 2
Cm
Bb
Father, dear father,
Cm
you've done me great wrong
Bb
Csus4
Bb
Csus4
You have married me to
Bb
Cm
a boy who is too young
Ab
Bb
I am twice twelve and
Cm
Gm
he is but fourteen
daily growing
F
Verse 3
Cm
Bb
Daughter, dear daughter,
Ab
Eb
Gm
I've done you no wrong
Bb
F
I have married you to a
Ab
Bb
And he will be a man for you when
Cm
Gm
I am dead and gone
Bb
He's young but he's daily
Ab
growing
Interlude 1
Ab
Bb
Ab
Bb
Verse 4
Cm
Bb
Father, dear father,
Ab
Eb
if you see fit
Bb
We'll send him to college for
F
Gm
another year yet
Ab
Bb
Cm
Gm
I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head
Bb
To let the maidens know
Verse 5
Cm
Bb
One day I was looking over my
Ab
Eb
father's castle wall
Bb
F
Gm
I spied all the boys playing with a ball
Ab
Bb
And my own true love,
Cm
Gm
he was the flower of them all
Bb
He's young but he's daily growing
Interlude 2
Ab
Fm
Fsus4
Bb
Gm
Ab
Fm
Fsus4
F
Fsus4
Bb
Gm
Verse 6
Cm
Bb
And so early in the morning at
Ab
Eb
the dawning of the day
Bb
They went into a hayfield for
F
Gm
to have some sport and play
Ab
Bb
And what they did there she
Cm
Gm
never would declare
F
complained of his growing
Verse 7
C
Cm
At the age of fourteen he
C
Cm
C
was a married man
At the age of fifteen,
Cm
C
Gm
Cm
the father of my son
At the age of sixteen,
C
his grave, it was green
Bb
Ab
And death had put an end to his growing
Verse 8
F
Bb
I'll buy my love some flannel,
Ab
Eb
I'll make my love a shroud
Bb
F
And every stitch I put in it, the tears,
Ab
Bb
Amd every stitch I put in it,
Cm
Gm
how the tears, they will flow
Bb
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing
Outro 1
F
C
Cm
C
Bb
Cm
Bb
Cm
Csus4
C
Ab
Bb
Cm
Gm
Bb
F
Gm
Ab
Bb
Cm
Gm
Bb
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