Oh Katie dear, go ask your mama If you can be a bride and bride
If she says yes, come back and tell me If she says no, we'll run away
Oh Willie dear, there's no need 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
Oh Katie dear, go ask your papa If you can be a bride and bride
If he says yes, come back and tell me If he says no, we'll run away
Oh Willie dear, there's no need 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 papa, goodbye mama I'll die for the one that I love best