Key: C# minor
Verse 1
And many's the cold winter's
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On a cold winter's night my love
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C#m
you and I alone have been.
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Growing, growing,
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My bonny boy is young
Verse 2
F#m
"Oh father, dear father,
For to go and get me married
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For he is only sixteen years old and
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I am twenty- one,
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Growing, growing,
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C#m
My bonny boy is young
Verse 3
I'll send your love to college
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And all around his college cap
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I'll tie a ribbon blue,
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Married, married,
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To let the ladies know
Verse 4
F#m
Now at the age of sixteen he
And at the age of seventeen
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And at the age of eighteen
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the grass grew over him.
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Growing, growing,
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end to his growing.
Verse 5
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And now my love is dead and
The green grass grows over
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I'll sit here and mourn his death
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C#m
until the day I die
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Growing, growing,
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F#m
child while he's growing.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF#m C#m B A E
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