The Trees They Do Grow High chords by Barbara Dickson

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Verse 1
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The trees they do grow high,
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and   the leaves they
do grow green.
The day is past and gone, my love,
that you and I have seen.
It's a cold winter's night,
my love,
when I'm a -spirallon.
For my bonnie boy is young
but a -growin'.
My bonnie boy is young
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but a -growin'
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As I was out a -walkin'
by yonder church wall
Four and twenty young men
were a -playin' at the ball
I asked for my true love
but they would not let him come
For they said the boy was
young but a -growin'
For they said the boy was
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young but a -growin'
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Oh father, dearest father,
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you've done to me
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much wrong
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You've tied me to a boy
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when you know he is too      young
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Oh, daughter, dearest daughter,
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if  you will wait a while
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Lady, you shall be while
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he's growing
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Lady, you shall be while he's growing
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And if did save who'll give life?
And if did save him, who'll
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Because he's an angel.
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We'll send
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your love to college,
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all for a year or two
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And then perhaps in time,
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the boy will do for you
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I'll buy you white ribbons,
to tie about his waist
To let the ladies know that he's married
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To let the ladies know
that he's married
So early in the morning
at the dawning of the day
They went out into the hay field
to have some sport and play
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And what they did lay,
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she never would de  clare
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But she never more com
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plained of his growing
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She never more complained
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of his growing
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And   at the age of sixteen
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he was a married man
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And at  the age of seventeen,
she brought to him a son
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And at the age of eighteen,
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her grass grew over him
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And that soon put an end to his growing
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And that soon put an end
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to his growing you