The Railroad Boy chords by Vandaveer

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Verse 1
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She went upstair
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s to make her bed
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And not a word
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to her mother said
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Her mother she went up
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stairs  too
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Saying "daughter oh daughter,
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what's troubling you?"

Verse 2
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"Oh Mother dear, I cannot tell
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it's the Railroad Boy I love so well
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He's courted me my
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life away
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and now at home he will not stay"
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"There is a   tavern

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Verse 3

the town

Where that boy goes and sits him down

He takes a strange girl on his knee

And tells to her things he won't

Interlude 1

tell me"

Verse 4
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Her father he  came home from work
saying "where's my daughter?
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She seems so hurt"
He went upstairs to give
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her hope
and found her hanging by
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the end of a rope

Verse 5

He took a knife and he cut her down,

And on her body these words he found

Verse 6
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"Go dig my grave both wide and  deep
Place a marble stone at my
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head and feet
And by my breast place
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a show white dove
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To show the world I died for