Pentangle - The Trees They Do Grow High

[saavedra29]

Wonderful song!!

[patfromlogan]

RedArmyMostar thanks for putting this up. My 22 year old son just turned me on to Goat Rodeo Sessions so I'm turning him on to Pentangle.

[RedSkyBlues]

great song, but even greater drumming!

[CPL593H72]

RIP Bert, can't believe you're gone. As long as we have your beautiful music you'll never be forgotten.

[simonmaxwellstewart]

You'll never see five musicians more psychically in tune than The Pentangle. And now one of them is gone... RIP Bert Jansch

[Babyhowdy233]

Otherworldly beautiful, this one never gets old!

[jameskobielus]

Can't believe I hadn't heard this gorgeous group till now, more than 40 years later. Love the deep Celtic folk group. This woman's voice is absolutely heavenly. Like the very best Clannad and Enya. Also, she's a knockout: captivating longhaired doe-eyed young vision.

[1968davidcassin]

wonderfull voice just so beautiful,i could listen to her all day. and night

[irishelk3]

Real music

[Sylphqueen1968]

this is a great great song for always :)

[jiminyjimbob]

Beautiful. Please listen to my version

The Trees They Do Grow High (Maureen)

I have been singing this song for 40 years and still love it.

[ccdg1066]

This and Joan Baez` version of this song are my favorites.

[cowofthemonth]

@ccdg1066 check out the donovan version I uploaded: Young but growing on the Bobby Gentry show

[vintagezigg]

An unforgettable moment in time. The songs of Pentangle.I still have my vinyl but unfortunately scarred by those hot seeds that fell out of the pipe.

[seanreillyireland]

@vintagezigg Wow!  Great stuff!

[lodewijkappelman]

The pentangle: since I was 15, there are the best

[Annapeanutbutter]

Love this song!

[Baruchyoseph8]

excellent post.

[498332]

The guitar part is incredible - feels like you're down a well listening to it! Much finer sound than a plugged-in transducer - love to know what mic was used.

[Pvoorr65]

pure schoonheid bestaat nog.

[zombiestars42]

The blood of people who wrote those harmonies runs my veins. Thank God.

[pigeonherder]

My first ever band did a cover of this combined with Wandering Star by Portishead, alternating verses/choruses. Works surprisingly well..

[aquamoon22]

hauntingly beautiful - haven't heard it for 40 years and it all come flooding back!!!

[davmccorm]

Must be 30 years+ since I listened to this. Still brilliant

[LazerSparks]

I love the Martin Carthy version too.

[jak855]

Thank you for posting this. Wonderful tune.

[ALFACENTAURUS1]

Love this song!!!!!! Tks!

[morthur1]

Est ce que quelquun pourrait me traduire les paroles car je n'y arrive pas :'( merci =)

[felixbeacher]

this is great, but the donovan version may be better

[AnOmbreRose]

Beautiful. Her voice is so lovely.

Most women singing this are a bit shrill, her voice is nice.

I love it with a simple guitar, quietly.

But I really like her delivery.

[saavedra29]

magical song!

[oljaana]

"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

Cruel death had put an end to his growing "

[kerbmonkey]

Awesome track, utterly fantastic. I still get goosebumps when I hear this. Makes me want to cry, in a good way if you see what I mean. Cant believe John Renbourn played last week a couple of miles from my house and I missed him! Argh! I will catch him next time.

[ApickinandAgrinnin]

Love it! Thanks for the post!

[buchananstreet]

majestic, grand, superb, noble, brilliant !!!!

[ElectricLabel]

Jacqui McShee still tours occasionally. Its not quite the same without Jansch, Renbourn and Danny Thompson... but for me thing that truly made Pentangle was Jacqui's incredible voice and charisma. And she's lost none of it.

[wornpick1]

Totally agree! Love them all, they are all so much a part of our lives. Jacqui's vocals were unique, as were Sandy's, Shirleys, and Junes. I do think that Pentangle get an unfair cut of the credit for the folk revival though.

[proinsiaspad]

This is so FANTASTIC!!!

Does anyone know where I can buy TAB

for this wonderful Pentangle version of this song?

[robnaylor55]

Not found a tab for it, but apart from the fiddly intro and the instrumental bit in the middle (which are work-out-able) the main backing is carried by fingerpicking on a limited set of basic chords:

Em Am Em Em

G D Em Em

Em Am Em Em

G D Em Em

then Em Em and back into it

Alternate the thumb picking on E and A strings for the Em pairs and then pick the B string, G string and finally D E together with thumb and 3rd finger. It works when you get the rhythm right.

[robnaylor55]

Sorry, after picking the D E strings together, pick the B string and G string again individually, in that order.

So the pick pattern is:

E or A (thumb)

B (2nd finger)

G (1st finger)

D/E (thumb and 3rd finger)

B (2nd finger)

G (1st finger)

Other patterns will work too, but to my ear that sounds pretty close to what the main backing guitar's playing.

[hieronymus9]

@robnaylor55, the A's are major. Dorian Mode!

[robnaylor55]

@hieronymus9 , Yes, you're right. I really should have played through it before posting the chords, ratherthan relying on memory. Sorry folks!

[sun21760flower]

Pentangle - one of my favorite music groups - wish,more people could listen to this GREAT music....

[smokindog]

I was a big fan of Steeleye Span back in the day. I don't know how I missed this group back then. I'm just blown away!

Just freakin amazing :-)

[zakipoe79]

I just recently got into them... but they're amazing. Interesting how some of people in these posts heard them for the first time in their mid twentes, I'm nineteen and love them. xD I wish I could have seen them live.

[Normanskie]

Ooops sorry, De Monfort Hall Leicester 1970

[huaxiong90]

@zakipoe79 That makes two of us then (assuming you're 20 now). If not, it's close either way. :D

I came across this when I was searching for Richie Blackmore's version, but I heard this, and it's way better than his version. And thus, my interest in the band has begun.

[tfd75005]

in 1969 I had the pleasure of seeing them on my university campus in Chicago, in a lecture hall. They have been imprinted on me since then.

[SamOOsFC59]

Just beautiful. a trip in another world.

[snoski49]

Looking for the tabulature for mandolin...can anyone help?

[DUCKSONAPOUND]

Beauty itself.

[ramron333]

does anyone know of this song but in a major key?

[niclasbech]

pentangle is an amazingly talkented group of people, my favourite musicians of all time.

[cheyenps]

Early 70's IIRC. One of my favorite songs of all time. Haven't heard it in years.

Thanks!

[dani5nc]

Proinsiaspad, I really like this version too! Never heard this one before either. And yes the guitar is amazing! Thanks for sharing it RedArmyMostar:)

Dani

[proinsiaspad]

Hi RedArmyMostar,

Thanks for posting this - the best version of 'The Trees' I've ever heard. Does anyone know the TABLATURE to this particular version, please?

I've heard the other versions here on Youtube, but the guitar parts just seem too simple compared to this heart rending interpreation.

[tphillips68]

@proinsiaspad I have the tab for this version in magazine somewhere around the house. did you ever find it?

[ramron333]

iconic version

has anyone heard this song only in a major key?

[XlolaX7]

no i think ure rite..its 1 of mine 2.... my mum n sis always use 2 sing it 2 me wen i was little && i still luv it =] xxx. gr8 wrk.

[Ermengarde11]

That must have been wonderful! I was in my twenties when I first heard it done by Joan Baez, and have loved it ever since.

[RedArmyMostar]

My favorite song...don't ask me why...

[beyonderom]

Why ?

[schlesmail]

Why not?

[ALFACENTAURUS1]

@RedArmyMostar I love this song!!!!!! Tks!

[punsdaddy]

@RedArmyMostar why?

[shepreferspostmortem]

@RedArmyMostar Because it's absolutely beautiful. It's surreal.

[ForzaBosnae]

@RedArmyMostar

Svaka cast za upload, pozdrav iz Zenice.

[moceanu]

@RedArmyMostar why?

[RedArmyMostar]

@moceanu

becose :)

[northertnivorycoast1]

@RedArmyMostar because the lyrics are great, and the song is amazing?