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