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