Railroad Boy

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 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's 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"