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The Trees They Do Grow High

from Colours by The Memory Band

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lyrics

The Trees They Do Grow High

The trees they do grow high and the leaves they do grow green
The time is long past love that you and I have seen
It's a cold winter's night you and I must bide alone
My bonny lad is young, but he's growing, growing
Oh my bonny lad is young, but he's growing

'Oh father, dear father, you've done me much wrong
You've married me to a boy and I fear he is too young.'
'Oh daughter, dear daughter, if you stay at home with me
Oh a lady you shall be while he's growing, growing
Oh a lady you shall be while he's growing'

We'll send him off to college all for a year or two
Perhaps then, my love, to a man he will grow
I'll buy you white ribbons for to tie around his waist
So the ladies shall know that he's married, married
So the ladies shall all know that he's married'

At the age of sixteen well he was a married man
And at the age of seventeen the father to a son
At the age of eighteen, love, his grave was growing green
And so she saw the end of his growing, growing
And so she saw the end of his growing

I made my love a shroud of the holland oh so fine
And every stitch I put in it the tears come trickling down
Oh I once had a sweetheart but now I've never one
Farewell my own true love for growing, growing
Fare thee well my own true love for growing

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from Colours, released November 1, 2021
(trad arr. Cracknell) Branch Music Ltd.

Nancy Wallace - vocals
Fred Thomas - electric piano, cello, reed organ.
Stephen Cracknell - guitar
Olie Brice - double bass

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The Memory Band UK

Landscape folk fond of field recordings, strange technologies.and megaliths.
We released our first EP in 2003, led by producer Stephen Cracknell and featuring a rolling cast of collaborators from many musical fields.

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