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Classification Title	Silver Dagger, Lyric Variant 01
Document Title	The Silver Dagger
Alternative Titles	An Awful Warning; The Dying Lovers; O Parents, Parents, All Take Warning; Katie Dear; The Warning Deaths
Subject	Ballads, English Love -- Songs and music Social classes -- Songs and music Suicide -- Songs and music
Scholarly Classification	Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 72 Randolph, 139 Laws, G 21 Cox, 109 Combs, 76 Sharp, 165
Description	Two leaves of lined paper, handwritten in black ink on both sides. The document is in good physical condition. The document was removed from a bound volume. There is moderate fraying along the right edge of the first leaf and along the left edge of the second leaf. The document was laminated. The first page of this document is located on the reverse side of "Single Life" Variant 1, Page 2.
Dimensions, Original	205 mm x 250 mm
Publisher	W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University
Contributors	I. G. Greer
Upload Date	2007-05-14
Type	Manuscript
Format	JPEG
Language	English
Rights	The images and audio files contained in the "So Mote It Ever Be: The Folksong Heritage of North Carolina's Northern Blue Ridge Mountains" collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. I. G. Greer/W. Amos Abrams Manuscript Files Series, Folksong Files Subseries, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Scan Date	2006-08-28
Scan By	Paul L. Robertson
Transcribe Date	2006-11-07
Transcribe By	Sarah C. Tonkin

Classification Title	Silver Dagger, Lyric Variant 01, Page 1
File Name	silver_dagger_01_p1.tif
Transcript	“The Silver Dagger” (1)Come all young men please lend attention To these few lines, I’m going to write They are just as true as ever was written Concerning a fair and a beauty bride. (2)There was a man he loved a maiden He loved her dear as he loved his life And he oftimes would vowe unto her He would one day make her his wife (4)But when his parents came to know this They sought to part them both night and day “Son O! son, don’t be so foolish She is too poor, ” they would oftimes say. (5)“Down on his bended knees kind saying parents, parents, pity me Don’t take from me my own dear jewel She’s all in this wide world to me. ”

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