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Go Dig My Grave

Jean Ritchie And Doc Watson
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Well, I'll be gone these lonesome days I'll return again, here is what I say Go dig my grave both wide and deep Place a marble stone at my head and my feet Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lordie me Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lordie me She went upstairs to make her bed And not one word to her mama said Her mama she went upstairs too Says, "Daughter, oh daughter, what troubles you?" "Oh, Mama dear, I cannot tell That railroad boy I loved so well He courted me my life away And now with me he will not stay" Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lordie me Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lordie me Her papa he come home from work Says, "Where's my daughter? She seems so hurt" He went upstairs just to give her hope And he found her hanging from a rope Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lordie me Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lordie me Well, he took his knife and he cut her down And in her bosom these words he found "Oh, dig my grave both wide and deep Place a marble stone at my head and my feet And on my breast place a snow-white dove To tell this world I died for love" Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lordie me Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lordie me