Lover's Warning- Mrs.Timmons (NC) 1945 Abrams REC
[From a recording in the Abrams Folksong Collection, Digital Collections; Appalachian State University. This is a version of the composed ballad, Silver Dagger, from the early 1800s.
The quality is poor and I'll do a transcription at some point.
R. Matteson 2016]
Lover's Warning- sung by Mrs. Laura Timmons August 15, 1945
Listen: http://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/f1f60f8d0f5f8b861ceed3089001de65.mp3
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Then she picked up that silver dagger
Thrust it in to her snow-white breast
Going back to pain and sorrow
She said, "Farewell I'm going to rest."