Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Long-A-Growing, artist - Steeleye Span. Date of issue: 22.03.1974
Song language: English
Long-A-Growing |
| As I was 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 |
| Father dear father you’ve done me much wrong |
| You’ve tied me to a boy when you know he is too young |
| But he will make a Lord for you to wait upon |
| And a lady you will be while he’s growing |
| We’ll send him to college for one year or two |
| And maybe in time the boy will do for you |
| I’ll buy you white ribbons to tie around his waist |
| For to let the ladies know that he’s married |
| The trees they do grow high and the leaves they do grow green |
| The day is passed and gone my love that you and I have seen |
| It’s on a cold winter’s night that I must lie alone |
| For the bonny boy is young but a-growing |
| 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 his grave it did grow green |
| Cruel dead had put an end to his growing |