The Butcher's Boy-Buell Kazee/The North Carolina Ramblers

[ti:The Butcher's Boy] [ar:Buell Kazee/Joseph Falcon] [al:Shine on Me: Classic American Folk Essentials from Robert Johnson, The Carter Family & More] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Butcher's Boy (屠夫之子) - Buell Kazee/The North Carolina Ramblers [00:12.85]She went upstairs to make her bed [00:19.59] [00:20.23]And not one word to her mother said [00:25.49] [00:26.37]Her mother she went upstairs too [00:33.08] [00:33.70]Says daughter dear daughter what troubles you [00:39.74] [00:40.30]Oh mother oh mother I cannot tell [00:47.32]That railroad boy I love so well [00:53.25] [00:53.91]He courted me my life away [01:01.05]And now at home he will not stay [01:07.49] [01:12.84]There is a place in London town [01:19.68]Where that railroad boy goes and sits down [01:24.94] [01:28.15]He takes that strange girl on his knee [01:35.68]And he tells to her what he won't tell me [01:41.50] [01:43.87]Her father he came in from work [01:50.49] [01:51.03]And said where's daughter she seems so hurt [01:56.50] [01:57.98]He went upstairs to give her hope [02:04.79] [02:05.83]But found her hanging on a rope [02:11.54] [02:12.31]He took his knife and cut her down [02:19.39] [02:20.04]And in her bosom these words he found [02:26.20] [02:27.48]Go dig my grave both wide and deep [02:34.19] [02:35.13]Place a marble slab at my head and feet [02:40.97] [02:44.68]And over my coffin place a snow white dove [02:50.88] [02:52.08]To warn this world that I died for love