Katie Dear- Blue Sky Boys (NC) 1938 REC
[Transcription of Blue Sky Boys [Bill & Earl Bolick] 'Katie Dear' recorded in Charlotte, North Carolina, on 25 January 1938 and released as Bluebird B7661 in August 1938. Reissued on CD on Various Artists 'Are You From Dixie?: Great Brother Teams of the 1930s' RCA 8417-2-R.
R. Matteson 2016]
KATIE DEAR- sung by Blue Sky Boys [Bill & Earl Bolick] from East Hickory, North Carolina.
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 in asking
She's in her room taking her 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 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 in asking
She's in her 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 darlin'
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'