Re: McKay or McKie?

I suspected it should be McKay—in fact, I automatically spelled it that way while I was making the transcription, but I changed it because "McKie" is the spelling used by Spotify (where I found the recording) and by Allmusic.com. In fact, every web site I have found that mentions this song uses the spelling "McKie." It could be that they are all describing the recent CD, and they all got their information from the same source: the CD publisher, Hallmark Recordings. Maybe Hallmark made the mistake. (Record publishers are notoriously bad spellers.) I haven't found any web site whose information definitely comes directly from the label of the original 78-rpm record. I don't know whether any sheet music exists.

In any case, Fyffe pronounced the name to rhyme with "sly" and "die."

By the way, Wikipedia lists 18 people named McKie and around 114 named McKay.