She went upstairs
to make her bed
And not one word
to her mother said
Her mother she went upstairs too
Saying, Daughter oh daughter
what's troublin' you
oh mother I cannot tell
That railroad boy
that I love so well
He courted me my life away
And now at home
will no longer stay
There is a place in yonder town
Where my love goes and he
sits him down
And he takes that 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
An' 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 on my breast
put a snow white dove
To warn the world
that I died of love