The Railroad Boy (Traditional) 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?"
"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"
"There is a place in London town That 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"
Her father he came home from work saying "Where’s my daughter? She seems so hurt" He went upstairs to give her hope And he found her hanging by a rope
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 Witn a marble stone on my head and feet And at my breast put a white small dove To tell the world that I died of love."