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1. The Trees They Grow So High Lyrics: The trees they grow so high and the leaves they do grow green / And many a cold winter's night my love and I .

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2. The trees they do grow high is an originally Scottish ballad about an arranged child marriage, also known as The trees they grow so high, My bonny lad is young but he’s growing, Long a-Growing, Daily Growing, Still Growing, The Bonny Boy, and Lady Mary Ann.

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3. Trees They Do Grow High Lyrics. The trees they do grow high, the leaves they do grow green. Many is the time my true love I've seen. Many an hour I .

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4. The Trees They Do Grow High has been quite unashamedly learned from the version noted by Sharp from Harry Richards of Curry Rivel in Somerset. As Sharp states, the way in which the concluding strain of each verse is varied is a fine example of how lines of irregular length can be adapted to the same melody.

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5. The trees they do grow high & the trees they do grow green, but the days have gone & passed my love that thou & I were seen. It’s a cold winter’s night my love, it’s now that I must lie alone: my bonny boy you were young, but a-growing. Oh father dearest father I fear you’ve done me harm.

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6. Oh the trees they do grow high and the leaves they do grow green, And many's the cold winter's night my love and I have seen. On a cold winter's night my love you and I .

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7. Feb 01,  · [Verse] Em D Am Em Trees they grow high and the leaves they do grow green D Am Em Many years that I my true love have seen D Am Em Many an hour I watched him all alone D Am Em He's young but he is daily growin' Em D Am Em Father, dear father, you done me great wrong D Am Em You married me to a boy who is too young D Am Em I'm twice twelve .

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8. Verse Em D Am Em Trees they grow high and the leaves they do grow green D Am Em Many years that I my true love have seen D Am Em Many an hour I watched him all alone D Am Em He's young but he is daily growin' Em D Am Em Father, dear father, you done me great wrong D Am Em You married me to a boy who is too young D Am Em I'm twice twelve and he is just .

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