Lyrics

She went upstairs to make her bed
And not a word to her mother said
Her mother she went upstairs too
Saying daughter daughter what troubles you

Oh mother mother I cannot tell
That butcher boy that I loved so well
He courted me my life away
And now at home he will not stay

There is a place in London town
To where he goes and sits him down
He takes a strange girl upon his knee
And then he tells her what he won't tell me

Her father he came home from work
Saying where is daughter she seems so hurt
He went upstairs to get her hope
And found her hanging from a rope

He took his knife and he cut her down
And in her bosom these words he found
Go dig my grave both wide and deep
Put a marble slab at my head and feet

And on my coffin place a snow white dove
To tell the world
I died of love.