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The Trees They Do Grow High

from Daily Growing 1999 by Aubrey Atwater Solo

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    DAILY GROWING: AUBREY ATWATER LIVE IN THE CLASSROOM (1999)
    Especially for Kids! Solo recording of traditional songs sung by Aubrey Atwater in England with school children. This is a live project performed solo by Aubrey Atwater during a six-day residency in schools in London, England. Aubrey is accompanied by singing children on many of the cuts of traditional American and Celtic folk songs which will appeal to all ages, including adults. Instruments include mountain dulcimer, guitar, and banjo. This delightful recording is educational and full of humor.

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The Trees They Do Grow High
Traditional
This English ballad may be based on the 17th century marriage of young Lord Craigton to Elizabeth Innes, a woman at least several years older, in a child marriage intended to consolidate family fortunes.
Lord Craigton died three years later in 1634.
Another thinking is that this ballad may be based on an even older story.

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The trees they do grow high, the leaves they do grow green
Plenty is the time my true love I have seen
Plenty is the hour I've watched him all alone
He's young but he's daily growing

Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong
You've married me to a boy who is too young
I'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen
He's young but he's daily growing

Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong
I married you to a great lord's son
He'll give you a child that you can wait upon
He's young but he's daily growing

Father, dear father, if you'll see it fit
We'll send him to college for one year yet
I'll tie a ribbon all around his head
To let the maidens know that he's married

One day I was looking o'er my father's castle wall
I spied the boys a-playing with a ball
My young one was the flower of them all
He's young but he's daily growing

At the age of fourteen, he was a married man
The age of fifteen, the father of a son
The age of sixteen, his grave it was green
For death put an end to his growing

The trees they do grow high, the leaves they do grow green
Plenty is the time my true love I have seen
Plenty is the hour I've watched him all alone
He's young but he's daily growing

He's young but he's daily growing
He's young but he's daily growing...

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from Daily Growing 1999, released May 9, 1999
Aubrey Atwater: vocals, guitar

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Atwater-Donnelly Warren, Rhode Island

Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, present delightful programs of traditional American and Celtic folk songs, a capella pieces, old-time gospel songs, dance tunes, and original works, blending gorgeous harmonies with guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, banjo, bones, spoons, limberjacks, and Appalachian clog dancing and French Canadian footwork. ... more

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