TRACK TALK #540 Young but Daily Growing

YOUNG BUT DAILY GROWING
ALBUM : The Bootleg Series Vol.11: The Complete Basement Tapes (2014)
Recorded : Juin-Octobre 1967
Released : 4 Novembre 2014

L'adaptation d'une balade irlandaise du 18ème siècle connue également sous les noms "The Trees They Grow So High", Long A-Growing" et "Lady Mary Ann".
Elle est populaire lors du revival folk avec des versions de Joan Baez et de Bob Dylan, qui la joue dans les cafés-concerts.
Lors des Basement Tapes en 67, il enregistre une nouvelle version avec le Band.

Unique performance live : Minneapolis (Mai 1961)



Lyrics
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'