Silver Dagger....
Sandie Fee
I was wondering is anyone out there remembers a song called Silver Dagger. I
think it was by Joan Baez but I'm not sure. I would like to get the words and
guitar chords if anyone knows them.
fax # (404)623-7136
Any help on where I can get it would be greatly appreciated....
Thanks for listen.....Sandie
Jon Berger
>Greetings all,
>
>I was wondering is anyone out there remembers a song called Silver Dagger. I
>think it was by Joan Baez but I'm not sure. I would like to get the words and
>guitar chords if anyone knows them.
Ah yes, the classic dysfunctional-family song; a perfect illustration
of the "traditional family values" our VP so loves to prattle on about.
Here's an attempt from memory; someone with an actual songbook may be
more accurate:
G D G
Don't sing love songs; you'll wake my mother.
D Em
She's lying here, right by my side.
C D
And in her right hand, a silver dagger.
G C D
She swears that I won't be your bride.
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.
All men are false, says my mother,
They'll tell you wicked loving lies.
The very next day, they'll court another,
Leave you alone to pine and sigh.
Go court some other tender maiden,
And promise her she'll be your wife,
For I've been warned, and I've decided
To stay a maiden all of my life.
(Repeat first verse, I think)
Chords derived by playing air guitar, humming, and typing at the same
time, to the immense amusement of the occupants of surrounding cubicles.
There are doubtless better ones.
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Areiel Wolanow
entitled, appropriately enough, *Joan Baez*. It was originally issued
on the now defunct Vanguard label, and original pressings in good condition
are worth a fair amount of money. Recently, however, a label whose name
escapes me has purchased a whole slew of Vanguard titles and has started
issuing them on CD. The cover of the one you want is black and has a
barely recognizable silhouette (sp?) of Joan on the cover.
Areiel Wolanow
Jimmy Dalin
>Greetings all,
>
>I was wondering is anyone out there remembers a song called Silver Dagger. I
>think it was by Joan Baez but I'm not sure. I would like to get the words and
>guitar chords if anyone knows them.
"Silver Dagger" is also known as "Katy Dear," which is the name under which
Ian and Sylvia recorded the song. (Grammarians: does one "cover" a
traditional folk song, or only a song with known authors?) I'm sure it's in
an old Sing Out!, in the Joan Baez songbook, or possibly in Rise Up Singing
(although I can't remember seeing it in there).
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ghost
>"Silver Dagger" is also known as "Katy Dear," which is the name under which
>Ian and Sylvia recorded the song. (Grammarians: does one "cover" a
>traditional folk song, or only a song with known authors?) I'm sure it's in
>an old Sing Out!, in the Joan Baez songbook, or possibly in Rise Up Singing
>(although I can't remember seeing it in there).
And its also known, in a revised-back-to-ancient-modal-version,
by far spookiest & best,
as "Awake Ye Drowsy Sleepers", also on an Ian & Silvia album (Early Morning
Rain). This was my favorite song during the pfa (previous folk era), partly
because it may have been the first English modal song not sweetened up
to match the rules of modern Western music that I had ever heard,
& the sound alone blew me away...most other Southern mountain music played
during that era was pretty much half&half, & partly because it has everything
a miserable adolescent (of any age) could want in a song...an ambivalent
loved one with homicidal parents, suicidal intent on the part of the narrator
(I think; you're not sure whose doing the talking by the last verse).
Triona Ni Domnhail as part of Relativity, & the House Band (I think it
was them) both do a far tamer, resolutely chromatic version called
"When I have put my ships in order".
In all these versions,
The tales of the father's philandering & mother's bitter advice based thereon
are gone back to whatever song they came from (they're in several)
& we're just left with a folk-typical pair of parents making godlike
decisions...
In "Ships etc" the dad has the excuse of a letter that "speaks ill of your
intent" or something like that, & the lover-bane dagger is gone from the
song, but the disconsolate suitor clearly kills himself anyway in the
last verse
(traditional family values win again).
Graeme Hirst
(Areiel Wolanow) writes:
>The song 'Silver Dagger' is the first track on the first Joan Baez album,
>entitled, appropriately enough, *Joan Baez*.
It's also on "Troubadours of the Folk Era, Volume I", a compilation CD
by Rhino Records (1992). (Others on this CD include Ian & Sylvia, Ewan
MacColl, Woody Guthrie, Donovan, etc.)
"Sing me no love songs; you'll wake my mother.
She's sleeping here, right by my side,
And in her hand, a silver dagger . . . "
Don't you just hate dates like that!
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