Railroad Boy

Railroad Boy (铁路男孩) - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹)

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

Oh mother dear I cannot tell

That railroad boy that I love so well

He courted me my life away

And now at home he will not stay

There is a place in London town

That railroad boy goes and sits down

He takes a strange girl on his knee

And he tells to her what he won't tell me

Her father he came home from work

Sayin' where is my daughter she seems so hurt

He went upstairs to give her hope

And he found her hangin' by a rope

He took his knife and he cut her down

And on her bosom these words he found

Go dig my grave both wide and deep

Put a marble stone at my head and feet

And left my breast put a white snow dove

To tell the world that I died of love