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Marci Meth & Anna Tilbrook - The trees they grow so high (Britten)

from The Wild Song by Marci Meth, Anna Tilbrook, Mychael Danna, Sir Simon Russell Beale

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folksong arrangement by Benjamin Britten
Somerset Folk Song (from Volume 1, British Isles)

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The trees they grow so high
And the leaves they grow so green,
And many a cold winter’s night
My love and I have seen.
Of a cold winter’s night,
My love, you and I alone have been,
Whilst my bonny boy is young
He’s a-growing.

“O father, dearest father,
You’ve done to me great wrong,
You’ve tied me to a boy
When you know he is too young.”
“O daughter, dearest daughter,
If you wait a little while,
A lady you shall be
While he’s growing.”

I’ll send your love to college
All for a year or two,
And then in the meantime
He will do for you;
I’ll buy him white ribbons,
Tie them round his bonny waist
To let the ladies know
That he’s married.

I went up to the college
And I looked over the wall,
Saw four and twenty gentlemen
Playing at bat and ball.
I called for my true love,
But the would not let him come,
All because he was a young boy
And 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 grass grows o’er him
So very, very high.
I’ll sit and mourn
His fate until the day I die,
And I’ll watch all o’er his child
While he’s growing.

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from The Wild Song, released June 2, 2020

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Marci Meth Paris, France

Marci Meth is a soprano and creative. Her new album The Wild Song pays hommage to Benjamin Britten's relationship with Nature. It reminds us that we are part of something bigger and more beautiful than we can see, and that each of us has a responsibility to leave this world more beautiful than we found it. ... more

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