The trees they do grow high, and the leaves they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I have seen
Many an hour I have watched him all alone
He's young but he's daily growing
Father, dear father, you've done me much wrong
Married me to a boy who is too young
He is but fourteen years and I am twenty one
He's young but he's daily growing
One day as I looked out over the castle wall
I watched the boys who playing with a ball
And my own true love was the flower of them all
He's young but he's daily growing
At the age of sixteen he was a married man16
At the age of seventeen the father to a son17
At the age of eighteen he left me all alone 18
The death had put an end to his growing
The trees they do grow high, and the leaves they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I have seen
I've so many an hour I have watched him all alone
He's young but he's daily growing
I've many an hour I have watched him all alone
He's young but he's daily growing