Joan Baez - Silver Dagger (1960/2019) [Official Digital Download]

"Silver Dagger", with variants such as "Katy Dear", "Molly Dear", "The Green Fields and Meadows", "Awake, Awake, Ye Drowsy Sleepers" and others (Laws M4 & G21, Roud 2260 & 2261), is an American folk ballad, whose origins lie possibly in Britain. These songs of different titles are closely related, and two strands in particular became popular in commercial Country music and Folk music recordings of the twentieth century: the "Silver Dagger" version popularised by Joan Baez, and the "Katy Dear" versions popularised by close harmony brother duets such as The Callahan Brothers, The Blue Sky Boys and The Louvin Brothers.

In "Silver Dagger", the female narrator turns away a potential suitor, as her mother has warned her to avoid the advances of men in an attempt to spare her daughter the heartbreak that she herself has endured. The 1960 recording by Joan Baez features only a fragment of the full ballad. "Katy Dear" uses the same melody but different lyrics, telling a similar story from a male perspective.

TRACKLIST

1. Joan Baez - Silver Dagger (Remastered)
2. Joan Baez - East Virginia (Remastered)
3. Joan Baez - Fare Thee Well (or Ten Thousand Miles) (Remastered)
4. Joan Baez - House of the Rising Sun (Remastered)
5. Joan Baez - All My Trials (Remastered)
6. Joan Baez - Wildwood Flower (Remastered)
7. Joan Baez - Donna Donna (Remastered)
8. Joan Baez - John Riley (Remastered)
9. Joan Baez - Rake and Rambling Boy (Remastered)
10. Joan Baez - Little Moses (Remastered)
11. Joan Baez - Mary Hamilton (Remastered)
12. Joan Baez - Henry Martin (Remastered)
13. Joan Baez - El Preso Numero Nueve (Remastered



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