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"