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The Butcher Boy
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Singer/Songwriter
The Butcher Boy was released on January 1, 1955 by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records as a part of the album Folk Songs of Courting & Complaint
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Release DateJanuary 1, 1955
LabelSmithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records
LanguageEnglish
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Credits

Lyrics

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 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 tells to her what he won't tell me
Her father he came up from work
Saying where is daughter she seems so hurt
He went upstairs to give her hope
And found her hanging from a rope
He took his knife and cut her down
And in her bosom these words he found
Groating 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 the world I died of love
Written by: J BAIRD, Liam Clancy, T. Clancy, Tommy Makem
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