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Joan Baez
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Lyrics as performed by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Hughes Stadium, Colorado
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University, Fort Collins, co, 23 May 1976,
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Transcribed by Manfred Helfert.
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She went upstairs to make her bed
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And not one word to her mother said.
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Her mother she went upstairs too
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Saying, "Daughter, oh daughter, what's troublin' you?":
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"Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell
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That railroad boy that I love so well.
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He courted me my life away
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And now at home will no longer stay. "
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"There is a place in yonder town
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Where my love goes and he sits him 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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Her father he came home from work
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Sayin', "Where is my daughter, she seems so hurt"
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He went upstairs to give her hope
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An' he found her hangin' by a rope.
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He took his knife and he cut her down
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And on her bosom these words he found:
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"Go dig my grave both wide and deep,
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Put a marble stone at my head and feet,
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And on my breast, put a snow white dove
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To warn the world that I died of love.
Joan Baez - Railroad Boy
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