Trees they grow high and the leaves they do grow green
Many's the time my true love I've seen
Many an hour I watched him all alone
He's young but he is daily growin'
Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong
You married me to a boy who is too young
I'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen
He's young but he is daily growin'
Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong
I married you to a great Lord's son
He'll be a man to you when I am dead and gone
He's young but he is daily growin'
Father, dear father, if you see fit
You send my love to college for one year yet
I'll tie blue ribbons all around his head
To let the maidens know that he's married
One day I was looking o'er my father's castle' wall
Saw the little boys all playing with their ball
My own true love was the flower of them all
He's young but he is daily growin'
Trees they grow high and the leaves they do grow green
Many's the time my true love I've seen
Many an hour I watched him all alone
He's young but he is daily growin'
At the Age of forteen he was a married man
At the Age of fifteen a father of a son
At the Age of sixteen his grave it was green
Cruel death had put an end to his growin'