Railroad Boy Chords by Joan Baez

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_ She went upstairs [Bb] to make [Ebm] her bed, [Ab] and not a word to her [Ebm] mother said.
Her mother she [Bb] went [Ebm]
upstairs to, [Ab] saying,
Daughter, oh daughter, [Ebm] what's troubling you?
_ _ _ _ Oh mother dear, [Bb] I [Ebm] cannot tell,
It's [Gb] that railroad boy that [Ebm] I love so well.
He's courted [Bb] me, [Ebm] my life away,
_ [Gb] And now at home he [Ebm] will not stay. _ _
_ _ There is a [Bb] place [Ebm] in London town,
That [Ab] railroad boy [Ebm] goes and sits down.
He takes a _ [Bb] strange girl [Ebm] on his knee,
And he tells to [Gb] her what he [Ebm] won't tell _ me.
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_ Her father [Bb] he came home [Ebm] from work,
Saying, [Gb] where's my daughter, she [Ebm] seems so hurt.
He went upstairs [Bb] to [Ebm] give her hope,
And he [Gb] found her _ hanging [Ebm] by a rope.
_ _ _ _ He took a knife [Bb] and he cut [Ebm] her down,
[Gb] And on her bosom these words [Ebm] he found. _ _ _ _
Go dig my [Bb] grave, both [Ebm] wide and deep,
Put a marble [Gb] stone by my [Ebm] head and feet,
And at my [Bb] breast put a [Ebm] white snow dove,
[Ab] To tell the world that I died of [Ebm] love.
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