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 the 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 is my daughter, she seems so hurt"
He went upstairs to give her hope
And he found her hangin' 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
Put a marble stone at my head and feet
And on my breast, put a snow white dove
To warn the world that I died of love"
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