The Trees They Do Grow High — текст песни (Joan Baez)

The trees they grow high,
the leaves they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I`ve 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 great wrong
You have married me to a boy who is too young
I`m 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
He`ll make a lord for you to wait upon
He`s young,
but he`s daily growing

Father, dear father, if you see fit
We`ll send him 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
I spied all the boys aplaying with the ball
My own true love was the flower of them all
He`s young, but he`s daily growing

At the age of fourteen, he was a married man
At the age of fifteen, the father of a son
At the age of sixteen, his grave it was green
And death had put an end to his growing