Lyrics: Radie Peat/Katie Kim/Eleanor Myler/John Murphy
Music: Radie Peat/Katie Kim/Eleanor Myler/John Murphy
The trees, they grow high and the leaves they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I've seen
Many is an hour I watched him all alone
He is 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'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen
He's young but he's daily growing
Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong
I have married you to a great lord's son
He'll make a lord for you to wait upon
He's young but he's daily growing
One day, I was looking over my father's wall
I spied all the boys are playing with the ball
My own true love was the flower of them all
He's young but he's daily growing
At the age of fourteen, he was a married man
At the age of fifteen, a father to a son
At the age of sixteen, his grave it was green
And death put an end to his growing