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The trees they grow high, the leaves they do grow green, |
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Many is the time my true love Ive seen, |
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Many an hour I have watched him all alone, |
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Hes young but hes daily growing. |
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Father, dear father, youve done me great wrong, |
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You have married me to a boy who is too young, |
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I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen, |
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Daughter, dear daughter, Ive done you no wrong, |
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He's young but he's daily growing |
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I have married you to a great lords son, |
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He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone, |
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Hes young but hes daily growing |
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Father, dear father, if you see fit, |
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Well send him to college for another year yet, |
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Ill tie a blue ribbon all around his head, |
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To let the maidens know that he is married. |
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One day I was looking over my fathers castle wall, |
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I spied all the boys playing with a ball, |
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And my own true love was the flower of them all, |
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He's young but he's daily growing |
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And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day, |
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They went into a hayfield to have some sport and play, |
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And what they did there she never would declare, |
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But she never more complained of his growing. |
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At the age of fourteen he was a married man, |
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At the age of fifteen the father of my son, |
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At the age of sixteen his grave it was green, |
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And death had put an end to his growing. |
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Ill buy my love some flannel, Ill make my love a shroud, |
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With every stitch I put in it, the tears they will pour down, |
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With every stitch I put in it, how the tears they will flow, |
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Cruel fate has put an end to his growing. |
