The Trees They Do Grow High Lyrics

Joan Baez The Trees They Do Grow High

The trees they grow high,



the leaves they do grow green



Many is the time my true love I've seen



Many an hour I have watched him all alone



He's young,



but he's daily growing







Father, dear father,



you've done me great wrong



You have married me to a boy who is too young



I'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen



He's young,



but he's daily growing







Daughter, dear daughter,



I've done you no wrong



I have married you to a great lord's son



He'll make a lord for you to wait upon



He's young,



but he's daily growing







Father, dear father, if you see fit



We'll send him to college for one year yet



I'll tie blue ribbons all around his head



To let the maidens know that he's married







One day I was looking o'er my father's castle wall



I spied all the boys aplaying with the ball



My own true love was the flower of them all



He's young, but he's daily growing







At the age of fourteen, he was a married man



At the age of fifteen, the father of a son



At the age of sixteen, his grave it was green



And death had put an end to his growing