Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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The Railroad Boy / Died for Love / The Butcher's Boy / The Butcher Boy (Roud No. 409) - Sung by Melcena Smith and Elias Fazer on "Under the Coconut Tree - Music from Grand Cayman and Tortola" (1982). Recorded by John Storm Roberts.

Song transcription to be completed:

In American City where I dwell,
A butcher boy I loved so well,
He courted me, my heart away
And yet with me he would not stay.

There was an inn in that same town,
In went my love and sat him down,
He took a stranger on his knee,
And told her all he had done for me.