Altan-Daily Growing

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选自专辑：《The Blue Idol 》和 CD《Best of Narada World》

这是一首唯美又夹着无尽忧伤的歌曲，带着纯纯的爱尔兰山间风情，歌词从父女的对话中勾勒出了一个我们见惯的悲情情节。父亲为了女儿能入豪门，促成了一桩大新娘小丈夫的婚姻。小丈夫日渐成长，有了她们的孩子，正感觉幸福慢慢地到来，可惜天不从人愿，小丈夫突然逝去，只留下悲伤的新娘一针一针地为他的爱人亲手缝制寿衣。。。。。。

唉！造化弄人万般错，曲中人事美复伤。如泣如诉，唱断人肠！

歌词：
The trees they grow high,
the leaves they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I”ve seen
Many an hour I have watched him all alone
He”s young,
but he”s daily growing

Father, dear father,
you”ve done me great wrong
You have married me to a boy who is too young
I”m twice twelve and he is but fourteen
He”s young,
but he”s daily growing

Daughter, dear daughter,
I”ve done you no wrong
I have married you to a great lord”s son
He”ll be a man for you when I am dead and gone
He”s young,
but he”s daily growing

Father, dear father, if you see fit
We”ll send him to college for another year yet
I”ll tie blue ribbons all around his head
To let the maidens know that he”s married

One day I was looking o”er my father”s castle wall
I spied all the boys aplaying at the ball
My own true love was the flower of them all
He”s young, but he”s daily growing

And so early in the morning
at the dawning of the day
They went out into the hayfield
to have some sport and play;
And what they did there,
she never would declare
But she never more complained of his growing.

At the age of fourteen, he was a married man
At the age of fifteen, the father of a son
At the age of sixteen, his grave it was green
Have gone, to be wasted in battle.
And death had put an end to his growing

I”ll buy my love some flannel
and I will make a shroud
With every stitch I put in it,
the tears they will pour down
With every stitch I put in it,
how the tears will flow
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing.