F G F G Am [Verse 1] G F Em The trees, they grow high, and the leaves, they do grow green G D Em Many is the time my true love I've seen F G Am Em Many an hour I watched him all alone G F He's young but he's daily growing [Verse 2] Am G F Em Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong G D Em You have married me to a boy who is too young F G Am Em I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen G F He's young but he's daily growing [Verse 3] Am G F Em Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong G D Em I have married you to a great lord's son F G Am Em And he will be a man for you when I am dead and gone G F He's young but he's daily growing [Interlude] G F D G [Verse 4] Am G F Em Father, dear father, if you see fit G D Em We'll send him to college for another year yet F G Am Em I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head G F To let the maidens know that he is married [Verse 5] Am G F Em One day I was looking over my father's castle wall G D Em I spied all the boys playing with a ball F G Am Em And my own true love, he was the flower of them all G F He's young but he's daily growing [Interlude] G F D G [Verse 6] Am G F Em And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day G D Em They went into a hayfield for to have some sport and play F G Am Em And what they did there, oh, she never would declare G F But she never more complained of his growing [Verse 7] Am G F Em At the age of fourteen he was a married man G D Em At the age of fifteen, the father of my son F G Am Em At the age of sixteen, his grave, it was green G F And death had put an end to his growing [Verse 8] Am G F Em I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love a shroud G D Em And every stitch I put in it, the tears, they'll pour down F G Am Em And every stitch I put in it, how the tears, they will flow G F Cruel fate has put an end to his growing