He's Young- Mrs. Duncan (NS) 1950 Creighton A
[From: Traditional Songs from Nova Scotia by Creighton and Senior, 1950.
R. Matteson 2016]
"He's Young but He's Daily A-Growing." Sung by Mrs. R. W. Duncan, Dartmouth by 1950.
1. The trees are growing high and the leaves are growing green,
And many's the happy days that I have seen,
It's lying alone of a cold winter's night,
He's young but he's daily a-growing.
2. "Now dear father, dear father, you've done me a-wrong,
You've married me-to a boy that's too young,
For I am twice twelve and he's scarce thirteen,
He's young but he's daily a-growing."
3. "Oh daughter, dear daughter I've done you no wrong,
I've married you to a rich lord's son,
He shall be your lord and it's you he shall wait on,
He's young but he's steadily growing."
4. "Oh father, dear father, oh what shall we do?"
" We'll send him to school for a year or two,"
While the tears come trinkling down all around about her cheeks,
He's young but he's daily a-growing."
5. "I'll make him a shirt from the cambric so white,
And I'll make it with my own hands,
And I'll bow it with ribbons all around about his neck
That the girls may all know that he's married."
6. One day as she sat in her father's long hall
she spied all the school boys a-playing at a ball,
And amongst them all she saw her own true love
The fairest of them all.
7. At the age of thirteen he was a married man,
At the age of fourteen his eldest son was born,
At the age of fifteen his grave was growing green
And that put an end to his growing.