Tonalità: C# minor•
Verse 1
F#m
Oh the trees they do grow high
C#m
and the leaves they do grow green,
And many's the cold winter's
B
night my love and I have seen.
A
E
On a cold winter's night my love
F#m
C#m
you and I alone have been.
B
Oh my bonny boy is young
F#m
but he's growing,
A
E
Growing, growing,
F#m
C#m
My bonny boy is young
F#m
but he's growing
Verse 2
F#m
"Oh father, dear father,
C#m
you've done to me much harm,
For to go and get me married
B
to one who is so young.
A
E
For he is only sixteen years old and
F#m
C#m
I am twenty- one,
B
Oh my bonny boy is young
F#m
but he's growing,
A
E
Growing, growing,
F#m
C#m
My bonny boy is young
F#m
but he's growing."
Verse 3
F#m
"Oh daughter, dear daughter,
C#m
I'll tell you what I'll do,
I'll send your love to college
B
for another year or two.
A
E
And all around his college cap
F#m
C#m
I'll tie a ribbon blue,
B
For to let the ladies know
F#m
that he's married,
A
E
Married, married,
F#m
C#m
To let the ladies know
F#m
that he's married."
Verse 4
F#m
Now at the age of sixteen he
C#m
was a married man,
And at the age of seventeen
B
the father to a son,
A
E
And at the age of eighteen
F#m
C#m
the grass grew over him.
B
Cruel death soon put an end
F#m
to his growing,
A
E
Growing, growing,
F#m
Cruel death soon put an
C#m
F#m
end to his growing.
Verse 5
F#m
And now my love is dead and
C#m
in his grave doth lie,
The green grass grows over
B
him so very very high.
A
E
I'll sit here and mourn his death
F#m
C#m
until the day I die
B
And I'll watch all o'er his child
F#m
while he's growing,
A
E
Growing, growing,
F#m
I'll watch all o'er his
C#m
F#m
child while he's growing.
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