Discover the story of the song > Butcher’s Boy – Buell Kazee

The lyrics tell the story of a young woman who falls in love with a railroad boy. She is upset because he no longer stays at home with her and instead goes to meet another girl in London. The girl's father finds her hanging by a rope and discovers a note in her pocket asking for a grave to be dug and a dove to be placed on her coffin, as a warning to the world that she died because of her love for the railroad boy.