The Butchers Boy

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She went upstairs to make her bed
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And not one word to her mother 
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she said
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Her mother she went upstairs too
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Said, "Daughter, oh daughter, 
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what troubles you?"


[Verse 2]
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"Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell
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That railroad boy I love so 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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Where that railroad boy goes and 
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sits down
And he takes that strange girl on 
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his knee
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And he tells to her what he won't
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 tell me"


[Verse 4]
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Father he came in from work
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He said, "Where's daughter, she 
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looks so hurt"
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He went upstairs to give her hope
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But he found her hanging from a 
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rope
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He took his knife and cut her down
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And in her bosom these words they
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 found:


[Verse 5]
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"Dig my grave both wide and deep
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Put a marble slab at my head and 
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feet
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And over my bones put a snow white 
dove
        F        Em            D 
So this world can see that I died
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 for love"