歌曲講述了一個憂傷而唯美的故事：
一個女子在年輕的時候由于父親的安排嫁給了一個富家的子弟，她開始擔心自己的年齡終有一天會成為感情悲劇的主因，因此她埋怨父親錯誤的將自己嫁給了一個比她小很多的男子?；楹蟮诙?，他們有了自己的孩子，而她的丈夫卻還是一個孩子。她送他去上學，為他裹了藍色的頭巾，她怕別人搶走父親為自己選定的真愛。而命運的捉弄，卻使她很快成了寡婦，在為愛人縫制壽衣的時候，她的悲哀成為了整個曲子的靈魂……
這是一首來自愛爾蘭樂隊ALTAN的凱爾特歌曲，也是我非常喜歡的一首歌曲。歌曲被女主唱演繹得自然淳樸如清水出芙蓉，父女倆對話般的吟唱以及歌中那種仿佛已經滲入骨髓的憂傷，深深打動人心。
很早之前就喜歡上這首歌，為了搜集視頻素材幾乎花去了我一個星期的業余時間，只是為了能把這部視頻做得好看一點兒。
歌詞很美，附錄如下：
The trees they grow high
樹兒長高
The leaves they do grow green
葉兒變綠
Many is the time my true love I've seen
多少次我看到我的愛人
Many an hour I have watched him all alone
多少次我長久凝望著他
He's young but he's daily growing
他還小，卻在一天天的長大。
Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong
父親，我親愛的父親，您對我做了件大錯事
You have married me to a boy who is too young
您把我嫁給了一個未成年的男孩
I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen
我都二十四了，他才十四
He's young but he's daily growing
他還小，卻在一天天的長大。
Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong
女兒，我親愛的女兒，我并沒有做錯什么
I have married you to a great lord's son
我把你嫁給了富家的子弟
He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone
一旦我老去他將成為你的依靠
He's young but he's daily growing
他還小，卻在一天天的長大。
Father, dear father, if you see fit
父親，我親愛的父親，如果您覺得合適
We'll send him to college for another year yet
我們來年就送他去學校
I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head
我要在他的頭上纏上藍綢帶
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 father's castle wall
曾經有一天，我在父親的城墻觀望
I spied all the boys playing with a ball
我看到很多男孩在玩球
And my own true love was the flower of them all
我的摯愛是最顯眼的一個
He's young but he's daily growing
他還小，卻在一天天的長大。
And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day
那是曙光微現的清晨
They went into a hayfield to have some sport and play
他們在草地上運動玩耍
And what they did there she never would declare
他們的幼稚，她羞于告人
But she never more complained of his growing
但她無從抱怨，因為他在長大
At the age of fourteen he was a married man
他十四歲時就是個已婚的男子
At the age of fifteen the father of my son
十五歲時他就成了我孩子的父親
At the age of sixteen his grave it was green
十六歲時他的墳墓綠草如茵
And death had put an end to his growing
死亡把他的成長定格成終點
I'll buy my love some flannel
我要為我的愛人買來法蘭絨
I'll make my love a shroud
我要為我的愛人做件衣裳
With every stitch I put in it, the tears they will pour down
一針一線淚珠如雨下
With every stitch I put in it, how the tears they will flow
一線一針淚向何處流
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing
殘酷的命運把他的生命劃上了終點
