The trees, grow high and the leaves, they do grow green Many is the time my true I've seen Many an I watched him all alone He's young but he's daily
Father, dear father, you've me great wrong You have married me to a boy who is too I am twice twelve and he is but He's but he's daily growing
Daughter, daughter, I've done you no wrong I have married you to a Lord's son And he will be a man for you when I am dead and He's young but he's daily
Father, father, if you see fit We'll send him to for another year yet I'll tie a ribbon all around his head To let the know that he is married
One day I was looking over my father's wall I all the boys playing with a ball And my own true love, he was the flower of all young but he's daily growing
And so early in the morning at the of the day went into a hayfield for to have some sport and play And what they did there she never declare But she never more complained of his
At the age of fourteen he was a man At the age of fifteen, the of my son At the age of sixteen, his grave, it was And death had put an end to his
I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my a shroud And every I put in it, the tears, they'll pour down And every stitch I put in it, how the tears, they will Cruel has put an end to his growing