Key: D
Introduction: Am E7 Am G/B C Em/B Am F Am
Am E7 Am
She went upstairs to make her bed
G/B C Em/B Am
And not a word to her mother said.
Am E7 Am
Her mother she went upstairs too
Am G/B C Em/B Am
Saying, "Daughter, oh daughter, what's troublin' you?"
verse 2
Am E7 Am
"Oh mother dear I cannot tell
G/B C Em/B Am
That railroad boy that I love so well.
Am E7 Am
He's courted me my life away
G/B C Em/B Am
And now at home he will not stay."
verse 3
Am E7 Am
"There is a place in London town
G/B C Em/B Am
That rail-road boy goes and sits him down.
Am E7 Am
And he takes a strange girl on his knee
Am G/B C Em/B Am
And he tells to her what he won't tell me."
Break
Am E7 Am G/B C Em/B Am F Am
verse 4
Am E7 Am
Her father he came home from work
G/B C Em/B Am
Sayin', "Where's my daughter, she seems so hurt"
Am E7 Am
He went upstairs to give her hope
G/B C Em/B Am
An' he found her hangin' by a rope.
Short verse
Am E7 Am
He took his knife and he cut her down
Verse 5
Am E7 Am
"Go dig my grave both wide and deep,
G/B C Em/B Am
Put a mar-ble stone at my head and feet,
Am E7 Am
And at my breast, put a white snow dove
Am G/B C Em/B Am G/B C Em/B Am F Am
To tell the world that I died of love.