Sarah Brightman - 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 have seen. Of a cold winter's night, my love, you and i alone have been, Whilst my bonny boy is young, he's a-gowing. Growing, growing, Whilst my bonny boy is young, he's a-gowing. O father, dearest father, you've done to me great wrong, You've tied me to a boy when you know he is too young. O daughter, dearest daughter, if you wait a little while, A lady you shall be while he's growing. Growing, growing, A lady you shall be while he's growing. I'll send your love to college all for a year or two And then in the meantime he will do for you; I'll buy him white ribbons, tie them round his bonney waist To let the ladies know that he's married. Married, married, To let the ladies know that he's married. I went up to the college and i looked over the wall, Saw four and twenty gentlemen playing at bat and ball. I called to my true love, but they would not let hime come, All because he was a young boy and growing. Growing, growing, All because he was a young boy and growing. At the age of sixteen, he was a married man And at the age of seventeen he was a father to a son, And at the age of eighteen the gra** grew over him, Cruel d**h soon put an end to his growing. Growing, growing, Cruel d**h soon put an end to his growing. And now my love is dead and in his grave doth lie, The green gra** grows o'er him so very, very high. I'll sit and i'll mourn his fate until the day i die, And i'll watch o'er his child while he's growing. Growing, growing, And i'll watch o'er his child while he's growing.