Kate was still an incubating chick when my Dad started singing K-K-K-Katy at the mention of his coming granddaughter. Now, 5 months after her arrival, the omp-pah style song about the stuttering soldier and his only love, is Kate’s song. We all know it. We all sing it to her. Including Will.
(The song has had some lyric adjustment over time to be more forgiving of Jimmy’s awkwardness; but we sing the original🙂
Katy was a maid with hair of gold,
Like an act of fate,
Kate was standing at the gate,
Watching all the boys on dress parade.
Jimmy with the girls was just a gawk,
Stuttered ev’ry time he tried to talk,
Still that night at eight,
He was there at Katy’s gate,
Stuttering to her this love sick cry.
CHORUS [sung twice after each verse]
“K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy,
You’re the only g-g-g-girl that I adore;
When the m-m-m-moon shines,
Over the cowshed,
I’’ll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door.â€
No one could be just as cute and sweet,
That’s what Jimmy thought,
When the wedding ring he bought,
Now he’s off to France the foe to meet.
Jimmy thought he’d like to take a chance,
See if he could make the Kaiser dance,
Stepping to a tune,
All about the silv’ry moon,
This is what they hear in far off France.
Will sings it here. Will and I sing it here. And here is just a minute of Paul and I playing with Kate after bedtime. (Note Will’s stuffy nose and Kate’s cough — poor kids!)
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