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“Silver Dagger” is a folk song popular in Britain and Appalachia. There have been many variants collected under different names since the early 1800s, all following the same general plot of two young lovers whose parents forbid them to be together. This version is styled after the 1960 Joan Baez rec...
[Verse 1]
Don't sing love songs, you'll wake my mother
She's sleeping here, right by my side
And in her right hand, a silver dagger
She says that I can't be your bride
[Verse 2]
"All men are false," said my mother
"They'll tell you wicked, loving lies
And the very next evening, they'll court another
Leave you alone to pine and sigh"
[Verse 3]
My daddy, he's a handsome devil
He's got a chain five miles long
And on every link, a heart does dangle
Of another maid he's loved and wronged
[Verse 4]
So court another tender maiden
And hope that she will be your wife
For I have been warned and I've decided
To sleep alone all of my life
[Verse 1]
Don't sing love songs, you'll wake my mother
She's sleeping here, right by my side
And in her right hand, a silver dagger
She says that I can't be your bride
Silver Dagger [Solstice] was written by Traditional.
Fleet Foxes released Silver Dagger [Solstice] on Fri Dec 10 2021.