The Butcher's Boy

She went upstairs to make her bed

And not one word to her mother said

Her mother she went upstairs too

Says "Daughter, dear daughter, what troubles you?

"Oh Mother, oh Mother, I cannot tell

That railroad boy I love so well

He courted me my life away

And now at home he will not stay"

"There is a place in London town

Where that railroad boy goes and sits down

He takes that strange girl on his knee

And he tells to her what he won't tell me"

Her father he came in from work

And said, "Where's daughter? She seems so hurt"

He went upstairs to give her hope

But found her hanging on a rope

He took his knife and cut her down

And in her bosom these words he found:

"Go dig my grave both wide and deep

Place a marble slab at my head and feet"

And over my coffin place a snow-white dove

To warn this world that I died for love