Railroad Boy lyrics

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 troublin' you?''

Oh mother dear, I cannot tell

It's that railroad boy that I loved so well.

He 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

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 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 at my breast, put a white snow dove

To tell the world that I died of love.

• Artist:Joan Baez