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The Trees They Grow High

from Flights and Landings by Samantha Twigg Johnson

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The trees they grow high
The leaves they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I’ve seen
Many an hour I watched him all alone
He’s young but he’s daily growing

Father dear father you’ve done me great wrong
You’ve married me to a boy who is too young
I’m twice twelve and he is but fourteen
He’s young but he’s daily growing

Daughter dear daughter I’ve done you no wrong
I’ve married you to a great lord’s son
He’ll make a lord for you to wait upon
He’s young but he’s daily growning

Father dear father if you see fit
We’ll send him to college for one year yet
I’ll tie blue ribbons all around his head
To let the maidens know that he’s married

One day I was looking o’er my father’s castle wall
I spied the boys a-playing with a ball
My one true love was the flower of them all
He’s young but he’s daily growing

At the age of fourteen he was a married man
At the age of fifteen the father of a son
At the age of sixteen his grave it was green
And death had put an end to his growing

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from Flights and Landings, released April 17, 2020
Bass: Vincent Lynch
Guitar: Josh Robson-Hemmings
Flute: Hannah Gray

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Samantha Twigg Johnson Oxford, UK

Originally from Washington, DC, Samantha Twigg has sung in dark corners and on bright stages in the US, New Zealand, The Philippines, Spain and the UK. In addition to the flamenco guitar, she plays the Puerto Rican cuatro, a ten-stringed instrument she bought under the influence of heavy anaesthetics after a root canal in Chicago. She now lives in Oxford. ... more

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