Lyrics:

The trees they do grow highThe leaves they do grow greenMany's the time my love I have seenMany the hour I watched h
im on the goHe's young but he's daily growingFather, dear fatherYou've done to me great wrongYou've married me to a boy wh
o is too youngI'm twice twelve and he is but fourteenHe's young but he's daily growingDaughter, dear daughterI've done to
you no wrongI've married you to a rich man's sonHe'll make a Lord for you to wed to borneHe's young but he's daily growing
Oh father, dear fatherIfin you besee-ee fitI'll send him to college for one year yetI'll tie blue ribbons all around his hea
dTo let the maidens know that he's marriedOne day while I was walkingOn my father's castle wallI saw the boys, they were p
layin' with the ballMy own true love was the flower of them allHe's young but he's daily growingAt the age of fifteenHe wa
s a married manThe age of sixteen, a father of a sonThe age of seventeen, the grass grew over himGrew that soon put an end t
o his growingThe trees they do grow highThe leaves they do grow greenMany's the time my love I have seenMany the hour I wa
tched him all aloneHe's young but he's daily growing