Railroad boy
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1. She went upstairs to
make her bed,
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and
not one word to her mother said.
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Her mother, she went upstairs, too,
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saying,
"Daughter, oh daughter, what's troublin'
you?"
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2. "Oh mother, dear, I
cannot tell,
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it´s that railroad boy that 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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3. "There is a place in London town,
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that
railroad boy goes and sits down.
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He takes a strange girl on his knee,
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and
he tells to her what he won't tell me."
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4. Her father, he came home
from work,
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sayin', "Where is my daughter, she seems so
hurt."
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He went upstairs to give her hope,
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and
he found her hanging by a rope.
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5. He took his knife and
he cut her down,
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and
on her bosom these words he found :
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"Go,
dig my grave, both wide and deep,
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put a
marble stone at my head and feet.”
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“And in my breast, put a white snow dove,
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to
tell the world that I died of love.”
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(Joan Baez)