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Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high DigiTrad: BONNY BOY DAILY GROWING DAILY GROWING (BONNY BOY IS YOUNG OR TREES GROW HIGH, ETC.) LADY MARY ANN THE YOUNG LAIRD OF CRAIGSTON THE YOUNG LAIRD OF CRAIGSTOUN Related threads: The trees they do grow high: medieval? (101) Penguin: The Trees They Grow So High (14) Chord Req: The Trees They Do Grow High... (Carthy) (19) Lyr Req: The Trees They Grow High (from Pentangle) (22) Lyr Req: Lang a Growin' (16) Lyr Req: My Laddie's Bedside (9) |
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Subject: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: Floksnog Date: 15 Apr 11 - 06:44 PM I just worked out this tune from Chagford, Devon, and put it on my blog. It was collected by Sabine Baring Gould in 1890... http://westcountryfolklore.blogspot.com/2011/04/chagford-tune-all-trees-they-are-so.html |
Subject: ADD Version: All the trees they do grow high From: Floksnog Date: 15 Apr 11 - 06:45 PM Opps, got the name wrong (not a good start) - it is actually - All The Trees They are so High쳌 Here are the lyrics - As I looked over my father's castle wall I saw four and twenty boys playing at the ball But my pretty lad he did exceed them all And my pretty lad is young and he is growing O father, father dear, if that you think it fit We'll send him to the collage for a year yet And spinning I at home will sit-sit-sit. Whilst my pretty lad is young and is growing I'll buy my love five shirts of the Holland so fine And all the time I'm sowing, the tears run down the twine And I will sit and sing of that sweet love of mine, Whilest my pretty lad is young and is growing I'll cast my yellow train away by the root And I will clothe myself all in a boys suit And to the collage ?wish?, I will go a foot When my pretty lad so young still is growing At the age of fourteen he was a married man At the age of fifteen he had a little son At the age of sixteen his thread of life was done So my pretty lad so young had ceased growing |
Subject: RE: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: Dave Hanson Date: 15 Apr 11 - 06:47 PM How clever of you, I've only known it for forty years. Dave H |
Subject: RE: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: Noreen Date: 15 Apr 11 - 06:54 PM How clever and grown-up of you, Dave Hanson, to be so patronising to an enthusiastic new member. Thanks, Fs, I hadn't heard this version before. |
Subject: RE: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 16 Apr 11 - 11:25 AM Thanks, Floksnog. I'm always on the lookout for good tunes. Thanks, too, Noreen. Well done. (Let's see, 6:47 Mudcat time = 11:47 British time. The pubs have closed. Our beers are deteriorating from jolly to sullen. We've had the jolly company of the guys who know everything and don't like anybody. Let's go home, turn on the computer, and look for somebody to insult.) |
Subject: RE: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: GUEST,Paul Burke Date: 16 Apr 11 - 12:29 PM Nice version Flokmog. (I've known it for forty years too, but of the 5 or 6 versions I know, this isn't one of them). I wonder if her yellow train looked like this? I think you're blowing that fiddle the wrong end though. And the glasses are both empty. Maybe the two are connected. |
Subject: RE: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: Floksnog Date: 16 Apr 11 - 03:25 PM Thanks - I too have 2 other versions sung by different bands on CD (one is by Rubens Train and the other I cant remember!) and have heard it in pubs and festivals. This was a new version I had not come across before, and I loved the lines "And all the time I'm sowing, the tears run down the twine", as well as the yellow train by the root... (must have been a time loop if it was that train Paul!) Maybe I put the wrong tag with the title - I couldn't find one for different versions.... |
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