BUTCHER'S BOY  She went upstairs to make her bed  And not one word to her mother said  Her mother she went upstairs too  Saying, "Daughter, oh daughter, what troubles you?"  "Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell  That butcher's boy I love so well  He courted me my life away  And now at home he will not stay"  "There is a place in London town  Where that butcher's boy goes and sits down  He takes that strange girl on his knee  And tells to her what he won't tell me"  Her father he came up from work  Saying, "Where is my daughter, she seems so hurt"  He went upstairs to give her hope  And found her hanging from a rope  He took his knife and cut her down  And in her bosom these words were found  "Go dig my grave both wide and deep  Place a marble slab at my head and feet  And over my coffin, place a snow white dove  To warn the world that I died of love  from Peggy Seeger  Recorded on Folkways Anthology  filename[ BUTCHBOY  SF  ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY===