Daily Growing Lyrics - Singles - Altan

The trees, they grow high and the leaves, they do grow green 

Many is the time my true love I've seen 

Many an hour I watched him all alone 

He's 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 am 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 

And he will be a man for you when I am dead and gone 

He's young but he's daily growing 

Father, dear father, if you see fit 

We'll send him to college for another year yet 

I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head 

To let the maidens know that he is married 

One day I was looking over my father's castle wall 

I spied all the boys playing with a ball 

And my own true love, he was the flower of them all 

He's young but he's daily growing 

And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day 

They went into a hayfield for to have some sport and play 

And what they did there she never would declare 

But she never more complained of his growing 

At the age of fourteen he was a married man 

At the age of fifteen, the father of my son 

At the age of sixteen, his grave, it was green 

And death had put an end to his growing 

I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love a shroud 

And every stitch I put in it, the tears, they'll pour down 

And every stitch I put in it, how the tears, they will flow 

Cruel fate has put an end to his growing