Every time this subject comes up I'm reminded of the old folk song "The Trees They Do Grow High":
O father, dear father, you've done to me a great wrong To go and get me married to one who is too young For he has only sixteen years, and I am twenty one...
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Date: 4/2/13 05:50 pm (UTC)O father, dear father, you've done to me a great wrong
To go and get me married to one who is too young
For he has only sixteen years, and I am twenty one...
...close enough.