[00:20.530]The trees they grow high and the leaves they do grow green,[00:26.710]Many is time my true love I've seen,[00:33.700]Many an hour I have watched him all alone,[00:38.490]He's young but he's daily growing.[00:46.610]Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong,[00:52.120]You have married me to a boy who is too young,[00:58.510]I am twice twelve and he is about fourteen,[01:05.860]He's young but he's daily growing[01:12.720]Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong,[01:19.000]I have married you to a great lord's son,[01:25.450]He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone,[01:31.730]He's young but he's daily growing[01:37.970][01:48.700]Father, dear father, if you see fit,[01:54.420]We send him to college for another year yet,[02:01.170]I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head,[02:07.340]To let the maidens know that he is married.[02:14.540]One day I was looking over my fathers castle wall,[02:21.100]I spied all the boys playing with a ball,[02:27.290]And my own true love he was the flower of them all,[02:33.420]He's young but he's daily growing[02:46.770][02:50.450]And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day,[02:56.820]They went into a hayfield to have some sport and play,[03:03.600]And what they did there she never would declare,[03:09.780]But she never more complained of his growing.[03:17.900]At the age of fourteen he was a married man,[03:23.530]At the age of fifteen the father of my son,[03:30.140]At the age of sixteen his grave it was green,[03:36.440]And death had put an end to his growing.[03:43.360]I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love a shroud,[03:49.800]With every stitch I put in it, the tears they will pour down,[03:55.690]With every stitch I put in it, how the tears they will flow,[04:02.100]Cruel fate has put an end to his growing.