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University, Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976, |
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transcribed by Manfred Helfert. |
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She went upstairs to make her bed |
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And not one word to her mother said. |
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Her mother she went upstairs too |
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Saying, "Daughter, oh daughter, what's troublin' you?": |
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"Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell |
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That railroad boy that I love so well. |
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He courted me my life away |
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And now at home will no longer stay." |
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"There is a place in yonder town |
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Where my love goes and he sits him down. |
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And he takes that strange girl on his knee |
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And he tells to her what he won't tell me." |
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Her father he came home from work |
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Sayin', "Where is my daughter, she seems so hurt" |
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He went upstairs to give her hope |
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An' he found her hangin' by a rope. |
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He took his knife and he cut her down |
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And on her bosom these words he found: |
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"Go dig my grave both wide and deep, |
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Put a marble stone at my head and feet, |
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And on my breast, put a snow white dove |
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To warn the world that I died of love. |