Railroad Boy

[Verse 1] She went upstairs to make her bed And not a word to her mother said Her mother, she went upstairs too Saying, "Daughter, oh daughter, what's troubling you?" [Verse 2] "Oh mother dear, I cannot tell It's that railroad boy that I love so well He's courted me my life away And now at home he will not stay" [Verse 3] "There is a place in London town That the railroad boy goes and sits down He takes a strange girl on his knee And he tells to her what he won't tell me" [Verse 4] Her father, he came home from work Saying, "Where is my daughter, she seems so hurt" He went upstairs to give her hope And he found her hangin' by a rope [Verse 5] He took a knife and he cut her down And on her bosom, these words he found "Go dig my grave both wide and deep Put a marble stone at my head and feet And on my breast, put a snow white dove To warn the world that I died of love"