Hi,

It's easier to hear Penfold with the text;

Only the 2nd- 4th stanzas appear on Penfold's 1907 recording -link in last post:

"O father, dear father you have dome something wrong,
You've bound me to that man which you know is very young."
"O daughter, wait a while, you will quickly have a son
And a lady you will be, while he growing."
"O daughter, wait a while, you will quickly have a son
And a lady you will be, while he growing."

We will send him to the college for another year or two,
Perhaps that's time my love that he will do for you,
We'll buy him a bunch of white ribbons to tie round his waist so fine,
Just to let the ladies know that he's married.
We'll buy him a bunch of white ribbons to tie round his waist so fine,
Just to let the ladies know that he's married.

She went to the college and looked over the wall,
Saw four and twenty gentlemen there, playing at the ball,
They would not let her in but her true love she did call,
Because he was so long and a-growing.
They would not let her in but her true love she did call,
Because he was so long and a-growing.

At the age of sixteen he was a married man
At the age of seventeen he was the father of a son,
At the age of eighteen grass was growing over him,
Cruel death had put an end to his growing.
At the age of eighteen grass was growing over him,
Cruel death had put an end to his growing.

Richie