The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #137177   Message #3136020
Posted By: Floksnog
15-Apr-11 - 06:45 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high
Subject: ADD Version: All the trees they do grow high
Opps, got the name wrong (not a good start) - it is actually -

All The Trees They are so High

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