| Em | Am | Em | |
| Nobody says the | things he | says |
| G | |
| Nobody moves like he | moves |
| Em | Am | Em | |
| Nobody makes me | feel this | way |
| C | G | |
| I'm going to marry that | boy, oh lord |
| C | Em | |
| I'm going to marry that | boy |
| Oh my mother said to me |
| Girl you better watch yourself |
| 'cause a railroad man is an absent man |
| I'm going to marry that boy, oh lord |
| I'm going to marry that boy |
| Chorus: |
| G | Am | Em | |
| We'll live in a | little t | own |
| D | |
| North of D | uluth |
| Where my grandmother |
| Lived in her youth |
| When he comes home at night |
| He'll call to me |
| My sweet darling girl |
| Come lay with me |
| 3rd stanza: |
| And oh mother nothing compares |
| Nothing even comes close |
| To the way he comes up under me |
| I'm going to marry that boy, oh lord |
| I'm going to marry that boy |
| Chorus: |
| Marry him in his easter clothes |
| Marry me in white |
| Beneath a canopy |
| Of unearthly light |
| And our friends and family |
| Will all come to say |
| God bless this union |
| God bless this day |
| 4th stanza: |
| Soon his burdens will be mine |
| Soon this love will set us free |
| All my hope lies with him now |
| I'm going to marry that boy, oh lord |
| I'm going to marry that boy |
| I'm going to marry that boy, oh lord |
| I'm going to marry that boy |
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