Template:The Butcher's Boy

She went upstairs to make her bed

And not one word to her mother she said

Her mother she went upstairs too

Said, "Daughter, oh daughter, what troubles you?"

"Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell

That railroad boy 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

Where that railroad boy goes and sits down

And he takes that strange girl on his knee

And he tells to her what he won't tell me"

Father he came in from work

He said, "Where's daughter, she looks so hurt"

He went upstairs to give her hope

But he found her hanging from a rope

He took his knife and cut her down

And in her bosom these words they found:

"Dig my grave both wide and deep

Put a marble slab at my head and feet

And over my bones put a snow white dove

So this world can see that I died for love"