Tom: C
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[Verse]
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As I was walking by yonder church wall
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I saw four-and-twenty young men a-playing at the ball
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I asked for my own true love, but they wouldn't let him come
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For they said the boy was young but a-growing
[Verse]
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Father, dear father, you've done to me much wrong
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You've tied me to a boy, when you know he is too young
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But he will make a Lord for you to wait upon
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And a lady you will be while he's growing
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We'll send him to college for one year or two
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And maybe in time, the boy will do for you
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I'll buy you white ribbons to tie around his waist
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For to let the ladies know that he's married
[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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The trees they do grow high and the leaves they do grow green
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The day is passed and gone, my love, that you and I have seen
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It's on a cold winter's night, that I must lie alone
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For the bonny boy is young but a-growing
[Verse]
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At the age of sixteen, he was a married man
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And at the age of seventeen, the father to a son
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And at the age of eighteen, his grave it did grow green
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Cruel death had put an end to his growing
[Outro]
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