Katie Dear - The Chieftains

Oh Katie dear, go ask your mama

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 need asking

For she lies on her feather bed

And by her side is a silver dagger

To slay the one that I would wail

Oh Katie dear, go ask your papa

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 asking

He’s in his room takin' a rest

And by his side there’s a silver 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 Katie, goodbye darling

It’s now forever we must partâ€

Then she picked up that bloody dagger

And plunged it through her lily white breast

Saying, ‽Goodbye papa, goodbye mama

I’ll die for the one that I love bestâ€