Still Growing chords by Bob Fox

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Verse 1
Em 
Oh, the  (E minor) trees, they do grow high,
and the leaves,
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Em 
they do grow  (B minor) green.  (E minor) 
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Em 
 (A major) And many's the  (E minor) cold winter's night,
A 
my love and I have  (A major) seen.
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 (E minor) On  a  (D major) cold winter's night,
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my love, you  (E minor) and  I alone  (B minor) have been.
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 (E minor) Oh, my  (D major) bonnie boy is  (A major) young,
Em 
but  (E minor) he's growing
Oh, father, dearest father,
you've done to me much harm
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To go  (B minor) an  d get me married
A 
to  (A major) one who is so young
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D 
For  (G major) he is only  (D major) sixteen years
Em 
and  (E minor) I   am twenty -one
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Oh, my bonnie boy  (A major) is young,
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but he's  (E minor) growing,  (G major) growing,  (D major) growing
Em 
My  (E minor) bonnie boy is young,
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but he's grow (A major) ing  (D major)  (A major) 
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Em 
 (D major) Well,  (E minor) daughter, dearest daughter,
I'll tell you what I'll do
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Em 
I'll send  (B minor) your love to  (E minor) college
A 
for  (A major) about a year or two
Em 
And  (E minor) all around his college cup
I'll tie a ribbon blue
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Em 
To let the ladies  (A major) know that he's  (E minor) married
One day as I was looking
o 'er my father's castle wall
I saw four -and -twenty young men
A 
all  (A major) playing at the ball
Em 
My  (E minor) true love amongst them
was the fairest of them all
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Em 
My bonnie boy  (A major) is young but he's  (E minor) growing
So early the next morning
at the dawning of the day
They went to the hayfields
A 
to  (A major) have some sport and play
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D 
An (G major) d  what they  (D major) did there
Em 
she wouldn't  (E minor) ever say
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But she never more  (A major) complained
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of his  (E minor) growin'  (G major) 
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Growin', grow (D major) in'
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She  (E minor) never more complained
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D 
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of  (A major) his growin'  (D major)  (B minor)  (A major) 
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Em 
 (B minor) Now  (E minor) at  the age of sixteen,
he was a married man
A 
At the age of seventeen, a  (A major) father to a son
Em 
At  (E minor) the age of eighteen,
the grass grew over him
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Em 
Cruel death soon  (A major) put an end to his  (E minor) growing
So now my love is dead,
and in his grave does lie
The green grass grows over him
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so  (A major) very, very high
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 (G major) I'll sit here an (D major) d mourn his death
Em 
un (E minor) til the day I die
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And I'll watch  (A major) all o 'er his child
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while  (E minor) he's growin', growin',  (G major) grow (D major) in'
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I'll  (E minor) watch all o 'er his child while
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 (A major) he's growin'  (B minor)  (D major)  (B minor)  (A major) 
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Em 
 (B minor) I'll  (E minor) make my lover shroud
of the finest hollin' brown
And with every stitch I pull,
A 
the  (A major) tears come runnin' down
Em 
For  (E minor) once I had a true love,
but now he's passed and gone
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Em 
Cruel death has  (A major) put an end to his  (E minor) growin'
The trees they do grow high,
and the leaves they do grow green
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Em 
Melly's the  (G major) cold in  (E minor) winter's night,
A 
my  (A major) love, and I have seen
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D 
On  (G major) a cold winter's  (D major) night,
Em 
my love, you  (E minor) and  I alone have been
A 
Our Barney boy  (A major) is young,
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but he's  (E minor) growing,  (D major) grow (G major) ing,  (D major) growing
Em 
When our  (E minor) bon nie boy is young
A 
and he's growin'  (A major) 