Silver Dagger

Old Crow Medicine Show

Key of D · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

Silver Dagger – Old Crow Medicine Show

Verse 2

D        G                D
Oh Katie dear go ask your mama
              G          A
If you can be a bride of mine
            G                 D
If she says yes come back and tell me
               A         D
If she says no we'll run away

Verse 3

          G                      D
Oh Willie dear there's no use in asking
                      G        A
For she's in her room a taking rest
           G                  D
And by her side lies a silver dagger
                A           D
To slay the one that I love best

Verse 4

         G                D
Oh Katie dear go ask your papa
                G          A
If you could be a bride of mine
           G                 D
If he says yes come back and tell me
              A         D
If he says no we'll run away

Verse 5

          G                      D
Oh Willie dear there's no use in asking
                     G        A
For he's in his room a taking rest
           G                  D
And by his side lies a silver dagger
            A               D
To slay the one that I love best

Verse 6

               G              D
Then he picked up that silver dagger
                        G            A
And he stove it through his troubled heart
               G             D
Saying goodbye Katie goodbye darlin’
                     A           D
I'll die for the one that I love best

Verse 7

                G              D
Then she picked up that bloody dagger
                         G              A
And she stove it through her lily white breast
               G            D
Saying goodbye mama goodbye papa
                     A           D
I'll die for the one that I love best