[ti:Daily Growing]
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[00:10.03]The trees they grow high, the leaves they do grow green,
[00:25.88]Many is the time my true love I've seen,
[00:32.11]Many an hour I have watched him all alone,
[00:38.68]He's young but he's daily growing.
[00:45.64]Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong,
[00:51.79]You have married me to a boy who is too young,
[00:58.02]I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen,
[01:04.49]He's young but he's daily growing.
[01:10.17]Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong,
[01:17.61]I have married you to a great lord's son,
[01:23.68]He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone,
[01:30.47]He's young but he's daily growing
[01:36.53]Father, dear father, if you see fit,
[01:53.30]We'll send him to college for another year yet,
[01:59.51]I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head,
[02:05.92]To let the maidens know that he is married.
[02:12.38]One day I was looking over my father's castle wall,
[02:19.01]I spied all the boys playing with a ball,
[02:25.10]And my own true love was the flower of them all,
[02:31.82]He's young but he's daily growing.
[02:38.19]And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day,
[02:54.22]They went into a hayfield to have some sport and play,
[03:01.00]And what they did there she never would declare,
[03:07.50]But she never more complained of his growing.
[03:14.32]At the age of fourteen he was a married man,
[03:20.45]At the age of fifteen the father of my son,
[03:26.95]At the age of sixteen his grave it was green,
[03:33.47]And death had put an end to his growing.
[03:39.73]I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love a shroud,
[03:46.16]With every stitch I put in it, the tears they will pour down,
[03:52.63]With every stitch I put in it, how the tears they will flow,
[03:59.32]Cruel fate has put an end to his growing.