Silver Dagger
$2.00
Silver Dagger is an empowering Appalachian folk song arrangement brought to the mainstream by Baez and Parton. Narrated from a young woman’s perspective, it tells of her mother’s struggles with distrustful men and imparts her lessons learned. Great for treble choirs wanting to express their power and inner wisdom.
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.
“All men are false”, says my mother,
“They’ll tell you wicked, lovin’ lies,
and the very next evenin’, they’ll court another
and leave you alone to pine and sigh.”
My daddy is a handsome devil,
He’s got a chain five miles long,
and on ev’ry link a heart does dangle
of another maid he’s loved and wronged.
Go court another tender maiden
and hope that she will be your wife.
For I’ve been warned and I’ve decided
to sleep alone all of my life.
– Traditional Appalachian
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