Go dig my grave
Both wide and deep
Place a marble stone
At my head and feet
And on my breast
A snow white dove
To tell this world
That I died for love
Oh lordy Lord
Oh lordy me
Oh Lord, oh Lord
Oh lordy me
She went upstairs
For 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, mama dear
I cannot tell
That railroad boy
That I loved so well
He courted me
My life away
And now with me
He will not stay"
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Oh lordy Lord
Oh lordy me
Oh Lord, oh Lord
Oh lordy me
Her father he
Came home from work
Saying, "Where's my daughter?
She seemed so hurt"
He went upstairs
For to give her hope
And he found her hanging
By a rope
Oh lordy Lord
Oh lordy me
Oh Lord, oh Lord
Oh lordy me
He got his knife
For to cut her down
And in her bosom
These words he found
Go dig my grave
Both wide and deep
Place a marble stone
At my head and feet
And on my breast
A snow white dove
To tell this world
That I died for love
Oh lordy Lord
Oh lordy me
Oh Lord, oh Lord
Oh lordy me
Lankum Songs Lyrics and Chords
- Willow Garden
- The Turkish Reveille
- The Granite Gaze
- Déanta in Éireann
- Bad Luck to the Rolling Water
- The Townie Polka
- Peat Bog Soldiers
- Sergeant William Bailey
- What Will We Do When We Have No Money?
- Hunting the Wren
- The Pride of Petravore
- The Dark Eyed Gypsy
- Katie Cruel
- Bear Creek
- Ode to Lullaby
- The Young People
- The Wild Rover
- The Turn
- On a Monday Morning
- Fugue III
- Lord Abore and Mary Flynn
- The New York Trader
- Netta Perseus
- Fugue II
- Newcastle
- Master Crowley's
- Fugue I
- Clear Away in the Morning
- Go Dig My Grave