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Butcher Boy Revisited

from Visiting by Toronaut

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The second song of the series called "visiting". My version of "The Butcher Boy".

Buell Kazee and the Clancy Brothers played the song and many more.

Recorded by Feldermelder

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She went upstairs to make her bed
And not one word to her mother she said
Her mother she went upstairs too
Said, "Daughter, oh daughter, what troubles you?"

"Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell
That railroad boy I love so well
He's courted me my life away
And now at home he will not stay
There is a place in London town
Where that railroad boy goes and sits down
And he takes that strange girl on his knee
And he tells to her what he won't tell me"

Father he came in from work
He said, "Where's daughter, she looks so hurt"
He went upstairs to give her hope
But he found her hanging from a rope
He took his knife and cut her down
And in her bosom these words they found:

"Dig my grave both wide and deep
Put a marble slab at my head and feet
And over my bones put a snow white dove
So this world can see that I died for love"

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from Visiting, track released February 19, 2015
Voice and guitar by Toronaut
Recorded by Feldermelder

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