Katie Dear✓

Oh Katie dear, go ask your mother

If you can be a bride of mine

If she says yes, come back and tell me

If she says no, we'll run away

Oh Willie dear, there's no use in asking

She's in her room a-takin' rest

And by her side is a silver dagger

To slay the one that I love best

Oh Katie dear, go ask your father

If you can be a bride of mine

If he says yes, come back and tell me

If he says no, we'll run away

Oh Willie dear, there's no need in asking

He's in his room a-takin' rest

And by his side is a golden dagger

To slay the one that I love best

So he picked up that golden dagger

And stove it through his troubled heart

Saying goodbye Katie, goodbye darlin'

At last the time has come to part

So she picked up that bloody dagger

And stove it through her lily-white breast

Saying goodbye papa, goodbye mama

I'll die with the one that I love best