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The Trees They Do Grow High (Roud 31)

from Findings by Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater

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Ange: “This was the first traditional song that we arranged together as a duo. It's a song I had heard countless times but never really listened to until I heard the version by Lucy Ward and Bella Hardy on The Liberty to Choose. Those two really dragged me into the lyrics of the song for the first time, and from that introduction to the song I knew that I wanted to work on my own arrangement. Lukas introduced the mid-song time signature change just before we started recording!”

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Trees they do grow high, leaves they do grow green. Many’s the cold winter’s night my love and I have seen. Of a cold and winter’s night, my love, you and I alone have been, while my bonny-bonny boy he is growing.

Growing, growing, my bonny bonny boy he is growing.

Oh father, dearest father you’ve done to me great harm! You’ve tied me to a boy when you know he is too young!

Oh daughter, dearest daughter if you wait a little while
a young lady you shall be while he’s growing.

Growing, growing, my bonny bonny boy he is growing.

At the age of sixteen he was a married man, and at the age of seventeen he was a father to a son... and at the age of eighteen the grass grew over him, cruel death soon put an end to his growing.

And now my love is dead! And in his grave doth lie. The green green grass grows over him so very very high. I’ll sit and I shall mourn his fate until the day I die and I’ll watch all over our child while he’s growing.

Growing, growing, my bonny bonny boy he is growing.

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from Findings, released September 14, 2016
Ange Hardy (vocals, harp, whistle), Lukas Drinkwater (vocals, guitar, double bass).

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Ange Hardy England, UK

Nominated for the Horizon Award for best emerging talent at the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Ange Hardy is a folk singer, songwriter and recording artist from West Somerset, England. Ange performs original contemporary songs written in a traditional style with an emphasis on vocal harmony. ... more

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