Daily Growing 这一首来自爱尔兰乐队ALTAN的凯尔特歌曲，自然淳朴如清水出芙蓉，天然去雕饰。深深打动人的，是父女俩对话般的吟唱以及歌中那种仿佛已经渗入骨髓的忧伤。
　　　　
　　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………
　　　　
　
　　The trees they grow high, the leaves they do grow green,
　　树已长高,叶子已变绿
　　Many is the time my true love I ve seen,
　　许多我所看到的就如我的爱人
　　Many an hour I have watched him all alone,
　　许多时候我都在孤单的注视着他
　　He s young but he s daily growing.
　　他很年轻但他在一天天长大
　　　　
　　Father, dear father, you ve done me great wrong,
　　父亲,亲爱的父亲, 你犯了一个很大的错误
　　You have married me to a boy who is too young,
　　你把我嫁给了一个那么小的男孩
　　I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen,
　　我已经24了而他才14岁
　　He s young but he s daily growing.
　　他很小, 但我想他会日渐长大
　　　　
　　Daughter, dear daughter, I ve done you no wrong,

Daily Growing歌词

Altan

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 am 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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