The Railroad Boy 歌词

She went upstairs to make her bed And not one word to her mother said Her mother, she went up there, too Saying, "daughter, oh daughter, what's troubling you?" "Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell For the 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 tavern in london town Where the railroad boy, he sits him down He takes a strange girl on his knee And he tells her things that he once told me" Her father, he came in from work Saying "where's my daughter, she seems so hurt" He went upstairs to give her hope But he found her hanging for a rope He took his knife and he cut her down And on her bosom these words he found "Oh, dig my grave both wide and deep Place a marble slab at my head and feet And on my coffin place a snow white dove To show this world that I died for love".