The Butcher's Boy

The Butcher's Boy Lyrics

Song The Butcher's Boy
Artist Buell Kazee
Album Anthology of American Folk Music
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[00:13.02] She went upstairs to make her bed
[00:20.42] And not one word to her mother said
[00:26.61] Her mother she went upstairs too
[00:33.98] Says "Daughter, dear daughter, what troubles you?
[00:40.88] "Oh Mother, oh Mother, I cannot tell
[00:47.86] That railroad boy I love so well
[00:54.54] He courted me my life away
[01:01.94] And now at home he will not stay"
[01:13.19] "There is a place in London town
[01:20.27] Where that railroad boy goes and sits down
[01:28.90] He takes that strange girl on his knee
[01:35.96] And he tells to her what he won't tell me"
[01:44.98] Her father he came in from work
[01:51.29] And said, "Where's daughter? She seems so hurt"
[01:58.10] He went upstairs to give her hope
[02:05.99] But found her hanging on a rope
[02:13.33] He took his knife and cut her down
[02:20.62] And in her bosom these words he found:
[02:27.54] "Go dig my grave both wide and deep
[02:35.40] Place a marble slab at my head and feet"
[02:44.89] And over my coffin place a snow-white dove
[02:52.22] To warn this world that I died for love
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