Dave Van Ronk - The Butcher Boy lyrics

She went upstairs to make her bed Not a word to her mother said Her mother she went upstairs too Saying “daughter, daughter what's troubling you?” “Oh mother, mother, I may not tell It's the butcher boy I love so well.” He's courted me my life away And now at home he will not stay There is a tavern in yonder town Where he goes and sits him down He sits those pretty girls on his knee And he tells them tales he won't tell me Her father he come home from work He ask for his daughter, she seems so hurt He went upstairs to give him hope And he found her hanging by a rope He took his knife and cut her down And on her bosom these words he found Oh what a foolish girl have I For such a cruel young man to die “Go dig my grave both wide and deep Marble slab at my head and feet And on my grave carve a snow white dove To let the world know I died for love.” ---