Railroad Boy

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[Verse 1]

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She went upstairs to make her bed
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And not a    word to her mother 
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said.
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Her mother she went upstairs too
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Saying, "Daughter, oh  daughter,
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 what's troublin' you?"


[Verse 2]

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"Oh mother dear I cannot tell
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That railroad boy that I love so 
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well.
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He's courted me my life away
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And now at  home he will not  stay."


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[Verse 3]

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"There is a place in London town
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That rail-road boy goes and sits 
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him down.
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And he takes a strange girl on his
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 knee
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And he tells to  her what he 
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won't tell me."


[Break]

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[Verse 4]

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Her father he came home from work
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Sayin', "Where's my  daughter, she 
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seems so hurt"
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He went upstairs to give her hope
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An' he found her hangin' by a rope.


[Short verse]

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He took his knife and he cut her 
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down
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And on her bosom these words he 
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found:


[Verse 5]

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"Go dig my grave both wide and deep,
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Put a mar-ble  stone at my head 
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and feet,
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And at my breast, put a white snow
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 dove
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To tell the world that I died of
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 love.