RAILROAD BOY

RAILROAD BOY She went upstairs to make her bed and not one word to her mother said Her mother she went upstairs too, said «Daughter, oh daughter, what's troubling you?» « Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell, it's that railroad boy I love so well He's courted me my life away and now at home he will not stay There is a place in London town where my love goes and he sits there down He takes a strange girl on his knee, and he tells to her what he won't tell me» Her father he came home from work, said «Where's my daughter, she seems so hurt» He went upstairs to give her hope and he found her hanging by the rope He took his 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 grave put a snow white dove, to tell the world that I died of love»