Die Musiker
Standing on
the Hill
Just Wee
Zwiefacher
Athionchollú - "Just Wee"
The Trees they grow high
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The trees they grow high and the leaves
they do grow
green.
Many are the ages my true love I have seen.
Many are the
hours I watched him all alone:
He's young but he's daily
a-growing.
"Father, dear father, you've done me great
wrong.
You married me to a boy who is too young.
I am twice
twelve and he is but fourteen."
He's young but he's daily
a-growing.
"Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no
wrong.
I married you to a rich man's son.
He'll make a lord for
you to wait upon."
He's young but he's daily a-growing.
"Father, dear father, you see fit.
we'll send
him to college for one year yet.
We'll tie a blue ribbon all
around his head
To let the maiden know that he's married."
One day I was looking from my father's
castle door.
I
spied all the boys who were playing with a ball.
My own true love
was the fairest of them all.
He's young but he's daily a-growing.
At the age of fifteen his eldest son was born.
At the age of sixteen on his grave the grass grows green.
And death had put and end to his growing.
