This is a song that I've carried around in my head for twenty-odd years. I can't find it in the database, although I might not have searched the critical phrase. Can anyone out there tell me the title and the origin of the tune? Thanks.

Verses

The trees they are ivied, the leaves, they are green
The times they are a-past, that we hae seen
In the lang winter's [night] tis I [who] must lie alain
For ma bonnie lad is lang lang a-growin

Oh father dear father, you have done me muckle [mother?] wrong
For ye hae wedded me to a lad that's sore young
For he is but twelve, and I am thirteen
And ma bonnie lad is lang lang a-growin

Oh father dear father and if it pleases you
I'll cut ma lang hair upon my brow
And vest coat and [breeches?] I'll gladly put on
And I to the school will gang with him

Oh father dear father, if you think it will fit
We'll send him to the school for a year or [two] yet
And I'll tie a green ribbon around about his bonnet
And that'll be a token that he's married

And in his twelth year he was a married man
And in his thirteenth he had gotten her a son
And in his fourteenth, his grave it grew green
And that put an end tae his growin