Butchers Boy Lyrics - Singles - Seeger Peggy

BUTCHER'S BOY 

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 butcher's 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 butcher's 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 my 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 were 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 the world that I died of love 

from Peggy Seeger 

Recorded on Folkways Anthology 

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