Katie Dear

Oh Katy 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, up taking rest

And by her side lies a silver dagger

To slay the one that I love best

Oh Katy dear, go and ask your father

If you can be a bride of mine

If he says yes, come on back and tell me

If he says no, we'll run away

Oh Willie dear, there's no use in asking

For he's there too, up taking rest

And by his side lies that golden dagger

To slay the one that I love best

Then he picked up that silver dagger

And plunged it through his troubled heart

Saying goodbye Katy, goodbye darling

The time has come for us to part

Then she picked up that bloody dagger

And stove it through her lily white breast

Saying goodbye momma, goodbye papa

I'll die with the one that I love best