Katie Dear
Traditional
Key of G · Chords: I IV V
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C G Oh Katie dear go ask your mother G C D If you can be a bride of mine D C G If she says yes come back and tell me G D G If she says no we’ll run away C G Oh Willie dear there’s no use in asking G C D She’s in her room a takin’ rest D C G And by her side is a silver dagger G D G To slay the one that I love best
Verse
C G Oh Katie dear go ask your father G C D If you can be a bride of mine D C G If he says yes come back and tell me G D G If he says no we’ll run away C G Oh Willie dear, there’s no need in asking G C D He’s in his room a takin’ rest D C G And by his side is a golden dagger G D G To slay the one that I love best
Verse
C G So he picked up that golden dagger G C D And stove it through his troubled heart D C G Saying goodbye Katie goodbye darlin’ G D G At last the time has come to part C G So she picked up that bloody dagger G C D And stove it through her lily-white breast D C G Saying goodbye papa goodbye mama G D G I’ll die with the one that I love best