RAILROAD BOY

She went upstairs to make her bed And not one word to her mother said Her mother she went upstairs too Saying, Daughter, oh daughter, what's troublin' you: Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell That railroad boy that I love so well He courted me my life away And now at home will no longer stay There is a place in yonder town Where my love goes and he sits him down And he takes that strange girl on his knee And he tells to her what he won't tell me Her father he came home from work Sayin', Where is my daughter, she seems so hurt He went upstairs to give her hope An' he found her hangin' by a rope He took his 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