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The Trees They Do Grow High

from When Conditions Were Right (Re​-​Release) by Andrew Paine

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The trees they grow so high and the leaves they grow so green,
The day is past and gone, my love, that you and I have seen.
It's a cold winter's night, my love, when I must bide alone,
For my bonny boy is young but a-growing.

As I was a-walking by yonder church wall,
I saw four-and-twenty young men a-playing at the ball.
I asked for my own true love but they wouldn't let him come,
For they said the boy was young but a-growing.

“Oh father, dearest father, you've done to me much wrong,
You've tied me to a boy when you know he is too young.”
“Oh daughter, dearest daughter, if you'd wait a little while,
A lady you shall be, while he's growing.”

“We'll send your love to college, all for a year or two,
And then perhaps in time the boy will do for you.
I'll buy you white ribbons to tie about his waist
To let the ladies know that he's married.”

And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day,
They went out into the hay-field to have some sport and play,
And what they did there she never would declare,
But she never more complained of his growing.

And at the age of sixteen he was a married man,
And at the age of seventeen she brought to him a son,
And at the age of eighteen the grass grew over him,
And that soon put an end to his growing.

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from When Conditions Were Right (Re​-​Release), released October 19, 2017
Andrew Paine - Vocal

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Andrew Paine is a Glasgow based musician: his work ranging from solo voice, through layered howling guitars, gentle piano interludes, oblique electronics and wherever he likes in between.

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