Daily Growing

演唱:Altan (愛爾蘭傳統民謠團體)

The trees they grow high, and the leaves they do grow green,
　　　　樹兒，他高高的生長，葉兒，她嫩綠嫩綠

Many is the time my true love I've seen, 　

很早我就見到了我的愛人
　　　　Many an hour I have watched him all alone,

很多時候，我悄悄凝望他
　　　　He's young but he's daily growing.
　　　　 他很年輕卻一天天的成長
　　　　
　　　　Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong,

父親，親愛的父親，你對我做了件大錯事
　　　　You have married me to a boy who is too young,

你讓我嫁給一個太年輕的男孩
　　　　I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen,

我都24了他卻14
　　　　He's young but he's daily growing.
　　　　 他很年輕卻一天天的成長
　　　　
　　　　Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong,

女兒，親愛的女兒，我並沒做錯什麼
　　　　I have married you to a great lord's son,

我讓你嫁給了一個不錯的小夥子
　　　　He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone, 　

當我老去離開後他將成為你唯一的男人
　　　　He's young but he's daily growing
　　　　他很年輕卻一天天的成長
　　　　
　　　　Father, dear father, if you see fit,

父親，親愛的父親，如果你覺得適合
　　　　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,

我會把他頭上綁條藍絲帶
　　　　To let the maidens know that he is married.
　　　　讓其他的女子知道他已經結婚
　　　　
　　　　One day I was looking over my father's castle wall,

有天，我在我父親的城牆觀望
　　　　I spied all the boys playing with a ball,

我看到很多男孩子在玩球
　　　　And my own true love was the flower of them all,

我的至愛是其中最顯眼的一個
　　　　He's young but he's daily growing.
　　　　他很年輕卻一天天的成長
　　　　
　　　　And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day,

黎明初晨
　　　　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,

 她無法知道他們在做什麼
　　　　But she never more complained of his growing.　　　　
　　　　但她再也不會抱怨他的成長
　　　　
　　　　At the age of fourteen he was a married man,

他14歲時就是個已婚男子了
　　　　At the age of fifteen the father of my son,

15歲 他就成了我孩子的爸
　　　　At the age of sixteen his grave it was green, 1

6歲時他年輕的離去了
　　　　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,

我要為我的愛人買些布裳，
　　　　I'll make my love a shroud,

我要為我的愛人做件裳
　　　　With every stitch I put in it,

我的一針一線 
　　　　the tears they will pour down,

淚滴匯製
　　　　With every stitch I put in it,

我的一針一線
　　　　how the tears they will flow,

淚從何處流
　　　　Cruel fate has put an end to his growing.
　　　　 殘酷的命運把他的一生劃了個終點