The Butcher Boy

Traditional

Key of C · Chords: I V ii vi

Verse 1

         G7               C
She went upstairs to make her bed
          G7                 C
And not a word to her mother she said
Her mother she went up there too
Dear daughter dear daughter what’s wrong with you

Verse 2

Oh mother oh mother I can not tell
     G7                      C
That butcher boy that I love so well
There’s another girl in another town
He goes out there and he sits right down

Verse 3

That night her father came home from work
Sayin’ mother dear mother where is my girl
        G7               C
He went upstairs to give her hope
             G7          C
And he found her hanging from a rope

Verse 4

             Am                   Dm
Then he took his knife and he cut her down
       G7                    C
And in her bosom these words he found
          G7              C
Go did my grave both wide and deep
            G7                C
With marble stones at my head and feet

Verse 5

In the middle of my grave put a snow white dove
             G7                C
To show this world that I died for love