Elvis Costello – The Butchers Boy (Guitar)

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She went upstairs to make her bed

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And not one word to her mother she said

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Her mother she went upstairs too

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Said, "Daughter, oh daughter, what troubles you?"

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"Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell

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That railroad boy I love so well

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He's courted me my life away

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And now at home he will not stay

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There is a place in London town

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Where that railroad boy goes and sits down

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And he takes that strange girl on his knee

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And he tells to her what he won't tell me"

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Father he came in from work

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He said, "Where's daughter, she looks so hurt"

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He went upstairs to give her hope

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But he found her hanging from a rope

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He took his knife and cut her down

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And in her bosom these words they found:

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"Dig my grave both wide and deep

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Put a marble slab at my head and feet

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And over my bones put a snow white dove

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So this world can see that I died for love"