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,