Silver Dagger / Songs and Lyrics

3 version(s)

Version 1

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X:1
T:Silver Dagger
T:Katy Dear / Wake Up You Drowsy Sleeper
C:Trad
M:4/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=120
K:C
z G (G G) | "F" (A4 | A) A A G | "C" (E (C3 | C)) G G A | 
w:Don't sing love songs, - you'll wake my mo-ther - She's slee-ping
c4 | "f" c4 | [M:2/4] c (B/2A/2) | [M:4/4] "G" (G4 | G) G G G | "F" (A4 | 
w:here, right by my - side. And in her right hand
A) A A G | "C" (E (C3 | C)) G G A | (c4 | 
w:- a sil-ver dag-ger - She says that I -
"G" c) G G (D | "C" D (E3 | E)) ||
w:- can't be your - bride -
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W:1
W:Don't sing love songs, you'll wake my mother
W:She's sleeping here, right by my side
W:And in her right hand a silver dagger
W:She says that I can't be your bride
W:
W:2
W:"All men are false", says my mother
W:"They'll tell you wicked, lovin' lies
W:The very next evening they'll court another
W:Leave you alone to pine and sigh"
W:
W:3
W:My daddy is a handsome devil
W:He's got a chain five miles long
W:And on every link a heart does dangle
W:Of another maid he's loved and wronged
W:
W:4
W:Go, court another tender maiden
W:And hope that she will be your wife
W:For I've been warned and I've decided
W:To sleep alone all of my life

Version 2

Version 3

%abc-2.1

X:1
T:Wake Up You Drowsy Sleeper
C:Traditional
Q:1/4=120
K:
W:Wake up, wake up, you drowsy sleeper,
W:Wake up, wake up, for it's almost day
W:Stick your head out at the window
W:And see your true love march away
W:
W:Who is it that has come so early?
W:Who is it that has come so soon?
W:Catie dear, it your true lover
W:That came so early and so soon
W:
W:Catie dear go ask your parents
W:If you may be the[/my] bride of mine
W:If they say no return and tell me
W:And no longer will I pine
W:
W:Willy dear, it's no use [to] ask them
W:They're in their room a takin' a rest
W:And in their hands they both hold daggers
W:To kill the one that I love best
W:
W:I then take out my silver dagger
W:And pierce it in my tender breast
W:Saying goodbye Catie, goodbye darling
W:I'll die for the one that I love best
W:
W:I'll then take up his bloody dagger
W:And pierce it in my lily white breast
W:Saying goodbye Catie, goodbye darling
W:I'll die for the one that I love best
W:
W:Oh may this day be long remembered
W:Oh, may this day be ne'er forgot
W:To all you cruel ill hearted parents
W:Who try to keep true lovers apart

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Song Note

Song by Traditional
Country of origin: England
Appears a lot in USA, but version exists back to 1817 in England

Folk song references:

Roud-711

Song to be found in the following collection(s):

My Own Song Book