Snow Dove- Bob Baker (KY) pre1964 Cohen/Seeger
[From the recording "Mountain Music Bluegrass style" Bob Baker and the Pike County Boys; released in 1991; published old-Time string band Book, 1964.
R. Matteson 2017]
“Snow Dove” by Bob Baker and the Pike County Boys; recording released in 1991; learned from his parents in Pike County, KY.
She went upstairs to make her bed,
Not a word to her mother she said,
Her mother she, went up there too,
"Daughter, daughter, what's wrong with you?"
Oh mother mother I cannot tell,
That butcher boy that I love so well,
There's another girl, in another town,
He goes right there and sits right down.
He gets her down upon his knee
And tells her things he won't tell me.
That night her father came in from work,
"Dear mother, dear mother, where is my girl?"
Her went upstairs to make her hope,
And found her hanging on a rope.
Her took his knife and cut her down,
And in her bosom these words he found:
Go dig my grave both wide and deep
Place marble stones at my head and feet,
And in the middle of my grave put a snow-white dove,
To show the world that I died for love.