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Butcher's Boy

from Live From eTown Hall by Long Road Home

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

Mother, oh mother, i cannot tell
About the butcher's boy I love so well
He courted me my life away
Now at home he will not stay

There is a place in London town
Where the butcher's boy goes and sits down
He takes a strange girl on his knee
And he tells to her what he won't tell to me"

Her father, he came home from work
Saying, "Where is my daughter, she seems so hurt?"
He went upstairs to give her hope
He found her hanging from a rope

So he took his knife and he cut her down
And on her boudoir these words he found
Said "Dig my grave, both wide and deep
Place a marble slab at my head and at my feet

And over my coffin place a snow white dove
To show the world that I died of love"

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from Live From eTown Hall, released March 1, 2010
Traditional, Arr. LRH

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Long Road Home Boulder

Attracted to bluegrass' power, simplicity, and honesty, Long Road Home focus on staying true to the tradition they find inspiring and meaningful. Each year more bands qualifying their brand of bluegrass with an adjective: “hard driving bluegrass”, “progressive bluegrass”, etc. Long Road Home is proud to just call themselves bluegrass. ... more

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