Long-A-Growing

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[Verse]
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As I was walking by yonder church 
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wall
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I saw four-and-twenty young men 
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a-playing at the ball
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I asked for my own true love, but 
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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
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 to me much wrong
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You've tied me to a boy, when you 
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know he is too young
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But he will make a Lord for you 
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to wait upon
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And a lady you will be while he's 
growing

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[Verse]
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We'll send him to college for 
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one year or two
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And maybe in time, the boy will 
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do for you
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I'll buy you white ribbons to tie
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 around his waist
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For to let the ladies know that he's
 married

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[Verse]
    C                       Am    
The trees they do grow high and 
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the leaves they do grow green
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The day is passed and gone, my 
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love, that you and I have seen
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It's on a cold winter's night, 
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that I must lie alone
G       Am    Dm  N.C.           Am 
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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 
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married man
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And at the age of seventeen, the 
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father to a son
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And at the age of eighteen, his 
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grave it did grow green
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Cruel death had put an end to his 
growing

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