The Trees They Do Grow High chords by Mike Billington

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Verse 1
Am 
Oh, the trees they do grow high,
Bb 
And the leaves they do grow green,
F 
Am 
And many's the long and winter night
F 
C 
My love and I have seen.
F 
It's a cold winter's night, my love,
You and I must lie alone,
Am 
Oh, the bonnie boy is young,
F 
But he's growing.
Bb 
Am 
Oh, father, dear father,
F 
Bb 
You've done to me great wrong,
F 
To go and get me married
Bb 
to one who is so young
F 
For he is only sixteen years
C#m 
F 
and I am twenty -one
Am 
Oh, the bunny boy is young,
F 
but he's growing
Am 
Oh, daughter, dear daughter,
F 
I'll tell you what we'll do
Am 
We'll send your love to college
F 
for another year or two
Am 
F 
And all around his college cap
we'll tie a ribbon blue
Am 
Just to let the ladies know
F 
that he's married.
Bb 
Am 
So  early the next morning,
F 
Bm 
so early the next day,
F 
Am 
This couple they went out to sport
B 
amongst the hay,
F 
Am 
F 
And what they did there I
never will relate,
But she never more complained
Am 
F 
of  his growin'.
Am 
F 
Oh, at the age of sixteen years
Bb 
he was a married man,
F 
And at the age of seventeen
a father to a son,
Am 
F 
And at the age of eighteen years
Am 
F 
the grass grew over him,
Am 
Cruel death had put an end
to his growing.