Joan Baez

The Railroad Boy (Traditional)
She went upstairs to make her bed
And not a word to her mother said
Her mother she went upstairs too
Saying "Daughter oh daughter, what's troubling you?"
"Oh Mother dear, I cannot tell
it's that Railroad Boy that 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
That Railroad Boy goes and sits down
He takes a strange girl on his knee
And he tells to her what he won’t tell me"