Daily Growing - Sandy Paton

The trees they are tall and the leaves they are green

Many I time my true love I've seen

Many an hour I passed all alone

My bony love's a long time a growing

Oh father dear father you've done me great wrong

You have married me to a boy that's 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 the rich Lord's son

He will make a Lord for

You do wait upon

He's young but he's daily growing

Oh father dear father and if you see fit

We'll send him to college for one year yet

I'll bind blue ribbon all about his head

To let the maidens know that he is married

One day as I looked are my father's castle wall

I so the boys playing with a ball

My own true love he was the flower of them all

He's young but he's daily growing

I made him a shade of the fine mast of learn

I sow the thought with my wone lovely hand

With every teach the tears came flow and down

He's yong but he's daily 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