The trees they grow high, 他们长高的树，

The leaves they do grow green 叶子他们成长的绿色

Many is the time my true love I've seen 很多是我的真爱，我看到的时候

Many an hour I have watched him all alone 多一个小时我已经看过他独自一人

He's young, 他还年轻，

But he's daily growing 但他一天天长大

   

Father, dear father, 爸爸，亲爱的爸爸，

You've done me great wrong 你帮了我很大的错误

You have married me to a boy who is too young 你嫁给我了一个男孩谁是太年轻

I'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen 我两次12 ，他不过是14

He's young, 他还年轻，

But he's daily growing 但他一天天长大

   

Daughter, dear daughter, 女儿，亲爱的女儿，

I've done you no wrong 我已经做了，你没有错

I have married you to a great lord's son 我才娶你一个大贵族的儿子

He'll make a lord for you to wait upon 他会成为一个主为你等候

He's young, 他还年轻，

But he's daily growing 但他一天天长大

   

Father, dear father, if you see fit 爸爸，亲爱的爸爸，如果你认为合适

We'll send him to college for one year yet 我们会送他上大学一年又

I'll tie blue ribbons all around his head 我把所有在他头上的蓝色丝带

To let the maidens know that he's married 让姑娘知道他结婚了

   

One day I was looking o'er my father's castle wall 有一天，我一直在寻找，把你父亲的城墙

I spied all the boys as playing with the ball í窥探所有的男孩玩球

My own true love was the flower of them all 我自己真正的爱情是他们全部的花

He's young, but he's daily growing 他还年轻，但他在长大

   

At the age of fourteen, he was a married man 在14岁的时候，他是一个已婚男人

At the age of fifteen, the father of a son 在十五岁时，儿子的父亲

At the age of sixteen, his grave it was green 在16岁的时候，他的坟墓是绿色的

And death had put an end to his growing 和死亡已结束他的成长