Katie Dear- J.E. Mainer (NC) 1969 REC
[Rural Rhythm RRJEM 225 ('Legendary J.E. Mainer Vol.7')Transcription of J.E. Mainer's recording.
Apparently the title was misspelled (Kattie Dear) on the album cover(online?) or perhaps since it's similar and perhaps a cover of the Blue Sky Boys it was changed for copyright reasons. The wording is different enough to be considered a separate version and not a cover song.
R. Matteson 2016]
KATIE DEAR- from J.E. Mainer's band, 1969.
[banjo intro]
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' rest
And by her side is a silver dagger
To slay the man 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 in [his] room a-takin' 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 worried heart;
Saying, "Goodbye Katie, goodbye darlin',
At last the time has come to part."
Then she picked up that silver dagger,
And stove it through her lily-white breast;
Saying, "Goodbye Willie, goodbye mother,
I'll die for the one that I love best."