The Trees They Do Grow High Chords by Joan Baez

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The trees they grow [Bbm] high, the leaves they [Ab] do grow _ [C] green.
[Cm] Many is the time [Fm]
my true love I've seen.
[Db] _ Many an hour [Fm] I've watched him [Ab] all alone.
[Cm] He's young but [Bb] he's daily [Fm] grown. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Father, [Bbm] dear father, you've done me [Ab] great [C] wrong.
You've married me [Fm] to a boy who is too young.
[Db] _ [Bbm] I'm twice twelve [Fm] and he is [Ab] but fourteen.
[C] He's young [Bb] but he's daily [Fm] grown. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Daughter, [Bbm] dear daughter, I've [Fm] done you [Ab] no [Cm] wrong.
I've married you to a [Fm] great lord's son.
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He'll make [Bbm] a lord [Fm] for you to wait [Ab]
upon.
[Cm] He's young but [Bb] he's daily [Fm] grown.
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_ Father, [Bbm] dear father, [Fm] if you see fit,
We'll [Cm] send him to college [Fm] for one year yet.
[Db] I'll tie blue [Bb] ribbons [Fm] all [Ab] around his head
[Cm] To let the [Bbm] maidens know [Fm] that he's married.
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_ One day I [Bbm] was looking [Fm] on my father's [Ab] castle wall.
[Cm] I spied all the boys a [Fm]-playing with a ball.
[Db] My own true [Bbm] love [F] was a [Ab] flower of them all.
[C] He's young [Bbm] but he's daily [Fm] grown.
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_ _ _ _ At the age of fourteen he was a [Ab] married man.
At [Cm] the age of fifteen [Fm] the father of a son.
[Db] At the age of _ [Bbm]
sixteen [Fm] his grade [Ab] it was good. _
_ [C] And death [Bb] had put [Bbm] an end to his [Fm] growing. _ _ _ _ _
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