""O, 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.""
""O, Willie dear, there's no use in asking.
She's in her room, taking a rest,
And by her side is a silver dagger
To slay the one that I love best.""
""O, 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.""
""O, Willie dear, there's no use in asking.
He's in his room, taking a rest,
And by his side is a silver dagger
To slay the one that I love best.""
So he picked up that silver dagger,
And plunged it through his troubled heart,
Saying, ""Goodbye Katie, goodbye darling,
It's now forever we must part.""
So she picked up that bloody dagger,
And plunged it through her lily-white breast,
Saying ""Goodbye mama, goodbye papa,
I'll die for the one that I love best.""