The Chieftains - Katie Dear lyrics

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 part” 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 best”