[00:00.00] 作曲 : BOOSEY-AND-CO-LTD+TRAD+TRAD ITIONAL+BRITTEN BENJAMIN+BOOSEY-AND-HAWKES-MUSIC-PUBL-LTD [00:01.00] 作词 : BOOSEY-AND-CO-LTD+TRAD+TRAD ITIONAL+BRITTEN BENJAMIN+BOOSEY-AND-HAWKES-MUSIC-PUBL-LTD [100:00.00]The trees they grow so high and the leaves they do grow green' [100:00.01]And many a cold winter's night my love and i have seen. [100:00.02]Of a cold winter's night' my love' you and i alone have been' [100:00.03]Whilst my bonny boy is young' he's a-gowing. [100:00.04]Growing' growing' [100:00.05]Whilst my bonny boy is young' he's a-gowing. [100:00.06]O father' dearest father' you've done to me great wrong' [100:00.07]You've tied me to a boy when you know he is too young. [100:00.08]O daughter' dearest daughter' if you wait a little while' [100:00.09]A lady you shall be while he's growing. [100:00.010]Growing' growing' [100:00.11]A lady you shall be while he's growing. [100:00.12]I'll send your love to college all for a year or two [100:00.13]And then in the meantime he will do for you; [100:00.14]I'll buy him white ribbons' tie them round his bonney waist [100:00.15]To let the ladies know that he's married. [100:00.16]Married' married' [100:00.17]To let the ladies know that he's married. [100:00.18]I went up to the college and i looked over the wall' [100:00.19]Saw four and twenty gentlemen playing at bat and ball. [100:00.20]I called to my true love' but they would not let hime come' [100:00.21]All because he was a young boy and growing. [100:00.22]Growing' growing' [100:00.23]All because he was a young boy and growing. [100:00.24]At the age of sixteen' he was a married man [100:00.25]And at the age of seventeen he was a father to a son' [100:00.26]And at the age of eighteen the grass grew over him' [100:00.27]Cruel death soon put an end to his growing. [100:00.28]Growing' growing' [100:00.29]Cruel death soon put an end to his growing. [100:00.30]And now my love is dead and in his grave doth lie' [100:00.31]The green grass grows o'er him so very' very high. [100:00.32]I'll sit and i'll mourn his fate until the day i die' [100:00.33]And i'll watch o'er his child while he's growing. [100:00.34]Growing' growing' [100:00.35]And i'll watch o'er his child while he's growing.