Young but Daily Growing

He's young but he's daily growin'
 Oh, daughter, dearest daughter, I have done you no wrong
 I've wed you to none other than a wealthy man's son
 And he will be a man to you when I am dead and gone
 He's young but he's daily growin'
 For out one day as I was walkin' all alone
 Down by the school wall
 I saw the boys, they were playin' at the ball
 And my own true love was the fairest of them all
 He was young but he was daily growin'
 At the age of sixteen years, he was a married man
 At the age of seventeen, he was the father of a son
 At the age of eighteen years
 Round his graves the grass grew long
 Cruel death has put an end to his growin'
 Ah, the springtime is leavin' now as summer's coming on
 With ornaments and fans, the ladies all pass on
 Oh, it's once I had a true love, but now I have none
 But I watch his bonnie son while he's growin'