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歌曲背景：
一个女子在年轻的时候由于父亲的安排嫁给了一个显贵的子弟，她开始担心自己的年龄有一天会成为感情悲剧的主因，她埋怨父亲错误的将自己嫁给了一个比她小很多的男子。婚后第二年，他们有了自己的孩子，而她的夫君却也还是一个孩子，在一天天的长大。她送他去上学，为他裹了蓝色的头巾，她怕别人抢走父亲为自己选定依存的真爱。而命运的捉弄，却使她很快成了寡妇，在为爱人缝制寿衣的时候，她的悲哀成了整个曲子的灵魂…
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ALTAN---Daily Growing
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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.
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Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong,
You have 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 growing.
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Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong,
I have married you to a great lord's son,
He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone,
He's young but he's daily growing
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Father, dear father, if you see fit,
We'll send him to college for another year yet,
I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head,
To let the maidens know that he is married.
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One day I was looking over my father's castle wall,
I spied all the boys playing with a ball,
And my own true love was the flower of them all,
He's young but he's daily growing.
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And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day,
They went into a hayfield to have some sport and play,
And what they did there she never would declare,
But she never more complained of his growing.
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At the age of fourteen he was a married man,
At the age of fifteen the father of my son,
At the age of sixteen his grave it was green,
And death had put an end to his growing.
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I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love 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 they will flow,
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing.
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树在长高, 叶在变绿,
许多次, 我看到他我的可爱,
几多时, 我独自对他长久凝视,
他还小, 但他在长大.
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爸爸, 亲爱的爸爸, 你对女儿犯下伟大的错
你把我嫁给没有成人的男孩,
我二十四, 他十四,
他还小, 但他在长大.
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女儿, 亲爱的女儿, 我给你的安排并没错,
我把你嫁给豪门的儿子,
一旦我老去, 他将是你依靠的男人,
他还小, 但他在长大.
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爸爸, 亲爱的爸爸, 如果你认为合适,
来年过后, 送他读大学吧,
我要用蓝绸带缠上他的头,
告诉年轻的女孩, 他已经结婚.
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曾经有一天, 越过爸爸的院墙,
我看到一群男孩在玩球,
我的可爱追逐其中,
他还小, 但他在长大.
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那是曙光微现的清晨，
他们冲入草场锻炼游戏，
他们的幼稚，她羞于告人，
但她无从抱怨，因为他在成长．
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十四岁，他成已婚男人，
十五岁，他已做了父亲，
十六岁，他的墓地绿草如芸，
死亡终止他的成长．
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我买来法兰绒，给我的可爱做寿衣，
一针下去，泪如雨，
一针上来，雨是泪，
残酷的命运终结他的成长.