Oh Katie dear, go ask your mother 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, I cannot ask her She's in her room a-takin' a rest And by her side is a silver dagger To slay the one that I love best ♪ Oh Katie dear, go ask your father 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, I cannot ask him For he's there to a-taking a rest And by his side is a silver dagger To slay the one that I love best ♪ Then he picked up that silver dagger And stove it through his weary heart Sayin', "Goodbye Katie, goodbye darlin'" At last the time has come to part And she picked up that bloody dagger And stove it through her lily white breast Sayin' "Goodbye Willie, goodbye darlin'" I'll die with the one that I love best