she went upstairs to make her bed and not one word to her mother said her mother she went upstairs too says daughter dear daughter what troubles you oh mother oh mother i cannot tell that railroad boy i love so well he courted me my life away and now at home he will not stay there is a place in london town where that railroad boy goes and sits down he takes that strange girl on his knee and he tells to her what he won t tell me her father he came in from work and said where s daughter she seems so hurt he went upstairs to give her hope but found her hanging on a rope he took his knife and cut her down and in her bosom these words he found go dig my grave both wide and deep place a marble slab at my head and feet and over my coffin place a snow white dove to warn this world that i died for love