Railroad Boy
She went upstairs to make her bedAnd not a word to her mother said.Her mother she went upstairs tooSaying, ''Daughter, oh daughter, what's troublin' you?''
Oh mother dear, I cannot tellIt's that railroad boy that I loved so well.He courted me my life awayAnd now at home he will not stay.
There is a place in London townThat railroad boy goes and sits down.He takes a strange girl on his kneeAnd he tells to her what he won't tell me.
Her father he came home from workSayin', ''Where is my daughter, she seems so hurt.''He went upstairs to give her hopeAn' he found her hangin' by a rope.
He took a knife and he cut her downAnd 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 at my breast, put a white snow doveTo tell the world that I died of love.