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The Trees They Grow Tall

from Bleaching Bones by Landless

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Trad. arr. Landless. Learned from Patricia Meir & Joe Heaney.

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The trees they grow tall and the
grass it grows green;
The time has come and past my love
since you and I have been.
It’s a cold and bitter night, my
love, that I lie here alone;
My bonny boy was young but he’s gone.

Oh, father, dearest father, you did
to me what’s wrong
When you married me to the bonny boy
whose age it was too young.
For he was scarce sixteen years and I
was twenty one;
My bonny boy was young and growing.

Oh, daughter, dearest daughter, I did
to you no wrong
When I married you to the bonny boy
whose age it was too young.
For he’d prove to be a man to you
when I was dead and gone;
Your bonny boy was young and growing.

But, daughter, dearest daughter, I’ll
tell you what I’ll do:
I’ll send your love to college for
another year or two.
And whilst he’s at college he’ll wear
a ribbon blue
So the girls will all know that he’s
married.

As I went down by the college wall,
I spied four and twenty college boys
all playing with a ball.
And it’s there I spied my own true
love, the fairest of them all;
My bonny boy was young and growing.

And at the age of sixteen he was a
married man;
And at the age of seventeen, the
father to a son;
And at the age of eighteen years,
over his grave the grass grew green;
Cruel death had put an end to his
growing.

I’ll make my love a shroud of the
oriental brown
And whilst I sit and sew it, the
tears they will roll down.
I will weep and I will mourn him
until the day I die,
But I’ll rear his bonny son whilst
he’s growing.

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from Bleaching Bones, released March 16, 2018
Recorded and mixed by John Murphy and Ian Chestnutt, Guerrilla Sounds Studios, Dublin.
Mastered by Christoph Stickel and John Murphy, 2018.

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Landless Dublin, Ireland

Landless are Lily Power, Meabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinead Lynch. Formed in 2013 and based in Dublin and Belfast, they sing unaccompanied traditional songs in four-part harmony.

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