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 troubling you?" "Oh Mother dear, I cannot tell It's the Railroad Boy I love so well He's courted me my life away And now at home he will not stay" "There is a tavern in the town Where that boy goes and sits him down He takes a strange girl on his knee And tells to her things he won't tell me" Her father he came home from work Saying "where's my daughter? She seems so hurt" He went upstairs to give her hope And found her hanging by the end of a rope He took a knife and he cut her down, And on her body these words he found "Go dig my grave both wide and deep Place a marble stone at my head and feet And by my breast place a show white dove To show the world I died for love."