Bluegrass Messengers

The Trees They Grows High- James Brown (Hamp) 1906

[George Gardiner Manuscript Collection (GG/1/9/513).

R. Matteson 2016]

The Trees They Grows High- sung by James Brown of Basingstoke, Hampshire in 1906. Collector: Gardiner, G.B. Gamblin, Charles

1.The trees they grows high, and the leaves they grows green,
The day is gone and past my love whne it's I and you have seen.
It's a cold winter's night, my love, while I must lie alone,
While my bonny lad is young but is growing.

 "Oh it's father, oh father, you do to me much wrong,
 You marry me to a boy when you knows I am too young[1]."
 "Oh daughter, oh daughter, that will never be so
We'll send him to the college for another year or two."

Now as she was a walking by her father's garden wall,
 She see four and twenty gentlemen a-playing of the ball,
Oh she cries where is  my  love, where I wonder can he be?,
 All because he was a young boy, and growing.

At the age of sixteen he was a married man,
 At the age of eighteen oh, she brought to him a son,
 At the age of twenty-one oh, his grave was dug so deep,
 Pretty lad it put an end to his growing.

1. he is too young,