I remember this song from when I was a girl some 80 years ago.
Poor little Kate, swingin' on a gate
Lonesome and feelin' blue
Girls passing by, hear Katie cry
"please let me play with you"
They answer "No"
She asks them "Why?"
You're a tomboy girl, that's why
With a heart so sad, she tells her old Dad
He says "Katie dear, don't you cry
You are Dad's little darlin, you are Dad's little child
For there never was a mother to curl your hair,
Daddy's little tomboy girl.

That is how I remember it. I have a granddaughter named Kate. She is an all around girl. This song does not describe her..."K-K-K Katy" is more like it. Do you know that one? Published in 1917