Long-A-Growing
Steeleye Span
C
(início)
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Verse
F C Am Dm F As I was walking by yonder church wall C Am Dm F I saw four-and-twenty young men a-playing at the ball C Am Dm F I asked for my own true love, but they wouldn't let him come G Am Dm N.C. Am F For they said the boy was young but a-growing
Verse
C Am Dm F Father, dear father, you've done to me much wrong C Am Dm F You've tied me to a boy, when you know he is too young C Am Dm F But he will make a Lord for you to wait upon G Am Dm N.C. Am And a lady you will be while he's growing
Verse
F C Am Dm F We'll send him to college for one year or two C Am Dm F And maybe in time, the boy will do for you C Am Dm F I'll buy you white ribbons to tie around his waist G Am Dm N.C. Am For to let the ladies know that he's married
Instrumental
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Verse
C Am Dm F The trees they do grow high and the leaves they do grow green C Am Dm F The day is passed and gone, my love, that you and I have seen C Am Dm F It's on a cold winter's night, that I must lie alone G Am Dm N.C. Am F For the bonny boy is young but a-growing
Verse
C Am Dm F At the age of sixteen, he was a married man C Am Dm F And at the age of seventeen, the father to a son C Am Dm F And at the age of eighteen, his grave it did grow green G Am Dm N.C. Am Cruel death had put an end to his growing
Outro
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