Railroad Boy chords by Joan Baez

Chords with lyrics

From the album Joan Baez Vol.2

Note - The recorded version sounds sharp of DmDm

[Intro]

A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm G/BG/B C majorC Em/B A minorAm FF A minorAm


[Verse 1]

A minorAm          E7E7    A minorAm
She went upstairs to make her bed
    G/BG/B C majorC      Em/B   A minorAm
And not a  word to her mother said.
A minorAm         E7E7    A minorAm
Her mother she went upstairs too
A minorAm         G/BG/B C majorC        Em/B   A minorAm
Saying, "Daughter, oh daughter, what's troublin' you?"

[Verse 2]

 A minorAm        E7E7   A minorAm
"Oh mother dear I cannot tell
     G/BG/B C majorC      Em/B   A minorAm
That railroad boy that I love so well.
       A minorAm  E7E7  A minorAm
He's courted me my life away
    G/BG/B C majorC      Em/B A minorAm
And now at home he will not stay."


[Verse 3]

A minorAm          E7E7   A minorAm
"There is a place in London town
     G/BG/B C majorC      Em/B   A minorAm
That rail-road boy goes and sits him down.
A minorAm             E7E7   A minorAm
And he takes a strange girl on his knee
A minorAm      G/BG/B C majorC      Em/B    A minorAm
And he tells to her what he won't tell me."


[Break]

A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm  G/BG/B C majorC Em/B A minorAm FF A minorAm


[Verse 4]

A minorAm         E7E7    A minorAm
Her father he came home from work
         G/BG/B C majorC       Em/B   A minorAm
Sayin', "Where's my daughter, she seems so hurt"
      A minorAm    E7E7    A minorAm
He went upstairs to give her hope
       G/BG/B C majorC    Em/B A minorAm
An' he found her hangin' by a rope.


[Short verse]

A minorAm            E7E7   A minorAm
He took his knife and he cut her down
    G/BG/B C majorC      Em/B   A minorAm
And on her bosom these words he found:


[Verse 5]

 A minorAm          E7E7    A minorAm
"Go dig my grave both wide and deep,
     G/BG/B C majorC      Em/B  A minorAm
Put a mar-ble stone at my head and feet,
A minorAm           E7E7     A minorAm
And at my breast, put a white snow dove
A minorAm   G/BG/B C majorC      Em/B  A minorAm  G/BG/B C majorC Em/B A minorAm FF A minorAm