Gov't Mule
By a Thread

Railroad Boy

She went upstairs to make her bed

And not a word to her mother said

Her mother, she went upstairs too said

"Daughter, oh daughter, what's troubling 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's a place in London town

Where the railroad boy goes and sits down

Takes a strange girl on his knee

Says things to her he won't say to me



Her father, he came home from work, said

"Where's my daughter, what's troubling her?"

He went upstairs to give her hope

Found her hanging by a rope



He took his knife, cut her down

And on her bosom these words were found

Oh dig my grave both wide and deep, place

A marble stone at my head and feet



And on my breast place a white snow dove

Won't you tell the world that I died for love

To tell the world I died of love

Tell the world that I died for love

Wont you tell the world that I died for love

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