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Trees They Grow High
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Joan Baez
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Trees, they grow high and the leaves they do grow green
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Many is the time my true love I've seen
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Many an hour I have watched him all alone
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He's young but he's daily growing
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Father, dear, father you've done me great wrong
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You've married me to a boy who is too young
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I'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen
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He's young but he's daily growing
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Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong
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I have married you to a great lord's son
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He'll make a lord for you to wait upon
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He's young but he's daily growing
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Father, dear father, if you see fit
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We'll send him to college for one year yet
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I'll tie blue ribbons all around his head
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To let the maidens know that he's married
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One day, I was looking o'er my father's castle wall
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I spied all the boys aplaying with the ball
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My own true love was the flower of them all
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He's young but he's daily growing
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At the age of fourteen, he was a married man
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At the age of fifteen, the father of a son
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At the age of sixteen, his grave it was green
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And death had put an end to his growing
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