M: The trees they grow high
And the leaves
They do grow green
Many is the time my true love
I've seen
Many an hour I watched him all alone
He's young but he's daily growing
Father dear father you've done me great wrong
You have married me to a boy
Who is too young
I am twice twelve and
He is but fourteen
He's young but he's daily growing
FK: Daughter dear daughter
I've done you no wrong
I have married you to
A great lord's son
And he will be a man for you
When I am dead and gone
He's young but he's daily growing
M: Father dear father if you see fit
We'll send him to college
For another year yet
I'll tie a blue ribbon
All around his head
To let the maidens know
That he is married
One day I was looking over
My father's castle wall
I spied all the boys
Playing with a ball
And my own true love he was
The flower of them all
He's young but he's daily growing
FK: And so early in the morning at
The dawning of the day
They went into a hay field for to
Have some sport and play
And what they did there
She never would declare
But she never more complained of his growing
M: At the age of fourteen
He was a married man
At the age of fifteen the father
Of my son
At the age of sixteen his grave
It was green
And death had put an end
To his growing
合: I'll buy my love some flannel
I'll make my love a shroud
And every stitch I put in it the
Tears they'll pour down
And every stitch I put in it how
The tears they will flow
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing