The Butcher's Boy-Snorri Helgason

[00:31.63]she went upstairs to make her bed [00:36.17]and not one word to her mother said [00:41.11]her mother she went upstairs too [00:45.91]saying, daughter, oh daughter, what troubles you? [00:53.35]oh mother, oh mother, i cannot tell [00:58.15]that butcher's boy i love so well [01:03.11]he courted me my life away [01:07.66]and now at home he will not stay [01:17.25]there is a place in london town [01:22.15]where that butcher's boy goes and sits down [01:26.88]he takes that strange girl on his knee [01:31.73]he tells her things he don't tell me [02:05.55]her father he comes home from work [02:10.40]saying, where is my daughter, she looks so hurt [02:15.24]he went upstairs to give her hope [02:20.18]found her hanging from a rope [02:27.79]so he took his knife and he cut her down [02:32.62]and in her bosom these words were found [02:42.82]go dig my grave both wide and deep [02:48.12]place a marble slab at my head and my feet [02:53.82]and on my stone, place a snow white dove [02:59.45]to warn this world i died for love