Daily Growing

The trees they grow high and the leaves they do grow green,
樹在長高，葉在變綠
Many is time my true love I've seen,
許多次，我看到我的真愛
Many an hour I have watched him all alone,
很多時候，我看到他獨自一人
He's young but he's daily growing.
他還年輕，但他正日復一日成長
Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong,
父親， 親愛的父親, 你對你的女兒犯下一個巨大的錯誤
You have married me to a boy who is too young,
你把我嫁給了一個沒有成年的男孩
I am twice twelve and he is about fourteen,
我二十四，可他才十四
He's young but he's daily growing
他還年輕，但他正日復一日成長
Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong,
親愛的女兒，我沒有做錯
I have married you to a great lord's son,
我把你嫁給豪門之子
He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone,
當我老去，他會是你的依傍
He's young but he's daily growing
他還年輕，但他還在成長

Father, dear father, if you see fit,
父親，親愛的父親，如果你認為可以
We send him to college for another year yet,
來年我們就送他到大學去
I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head,
我會為他裹上藍色的頭巾
To let the maidens know that he is married.
告訴年輕的女孩他已經結婚
One day I was looking over my fathers castle wall,
曾有一日我在父親的城堡隔牆遠眺
I spied all the boys playing with a ball,
我看到一群少年在踢球玩鬧
And my own true love he was the flower of them all,
我的愛人恍若鮮花，在人群中熠熠生輝
He's young but he's daily growing
他還年輕，但他還在成長

And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day,
那是一個清晨，曙光微亮在東方
They went into a hayfield to have some sport and play,
他們去到了乾草堆旁嬉鬧玩賞
And what they did there she never would declare ,
他們的愛情是那樣的神秘，她才不開口講
But she never more complained of his growing.
可真奇怪啊，從此以後她不再怨他青澀飛揚
At the age of fourteen he was a married man,
十四歲，他已為人夫
At the age of fifteen the father of my son,
十五歲，他已為人父
At the age of sixteen his grave it was green,
十六歲，墓上草木鬱鬱蒼蒼
And death had put an end to his growing.
死亡終止了他的成長
I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love a shroud,
我用法蘭絨為他編織壽衣
With every stitch I put in it, the tears they will pour down,
針針相織，淚如泉湧
With every stitch I put in it, how the tears they will flow,
線線相錯，淚如雨傾
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing.
也許是命運的捉弄, 他不再成長