The Butchers Boy

[Verse 1] She went upstairs to make her bed And not one word to her mother she said Her mother she went upstairs too Said "Daughter oh daughter what troubles you?" [Verse 2] "Oh mother oh mother I cannot tell That railroad boy 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 Where that railroad boy goes and sits down And he takes that strange girl on his knee And he tells to her what he won’t tell me" [Verse 4] Father he came in from work He said "Where’s daughter she looks so hurt" He went upstairs to give her hope But he found her hanging from a rope He took his knife and cut her down And in her bosom these words they found: [Verse 5] "Dig my grave both wide and deep Put a marble slab at my head and feet And over my bones put a snow white dove So this world can see that I died for love"