Danny Boy Lyrics & Chords By Traditional

The trees are growing high my love, and the grass is growing green
And many a cold and winter night that I alone have been
It is a cruel and bitter night that I must lie alone
Oh! the Bonny Boy is young, but he is growing

Oh! father, dear father I think you did me wrong
For to go and get me married to one that is so young
He is but sixteen years and I am twenty-one
Oh! the bonny boy is young and he's growing

Oh! daughter, dear daughter, I did not do you wrong
For to go and get you married to one that is so young
He will be a match for you when I am dead and gone
Oh! the bonny boy is young, but he is growing

Oh! father, dear father, I'll tell you what I'll do
I'll send my love to college for another year or two
And all around his college cap, I'll bind a ribbon blue
For to let the ladies know that he's married

A year it went by and I passed the college wall
And saw the young collegians a-playing at the ball
I spied him in among them, the fairest of them all
Oh! my bonny boy was young and still growing

At the age of sixteen years he was a married man
And at the age of seventeen the father of a son
But at the age of eighteen, o'er his grave the grass grew green
Cruel death put an end to his growing

I'll buy my love a shroud of the Holland linen brown
And whilst they are making it, the tears they will run down
It's once I had a true love, but now he's lying low
And I'll nurse his bonny boy while he's growing