Railroad Boy Lyrics - Joan Baez

Lyrics as performed by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Hughes Stadium, Colorado 

University, Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976, 

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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, 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. 

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