Lyr Req: Katy Cline

Subject: Katy Cline
From: T J
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 02:33 AM

Used to sing this song but a few lines have got lost in my head somewhere:-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy Cline
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 02:57 AM

Katy Kline

http://www.bluegrassnet.com/tgbs/k.html

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* LYRICS *

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy Cline
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Jul 02 - 10:36 AM

There is apparently no consensus on the spelling of this song title. This information comes from AMG:

"Katie Cline" is performed by
The Dillards on "First Time Live," 1999.

"Katie Klein" is performed by
The Stoneman Family on "Stonemans," 1970.

"Katy Cline" is performed by
Mountain Heart on "Mountain Heart," 2000.
Stover/Lilly/Anthony on (various artists) "Mountain Music: Bluegrass Style," 1991.
The Greenbriar Boys on (various artists) "Original New Folks," 1993.
The Lilly Brothers on "Live at Hillbilly Ranch," 1965.
The Stanley Brothers on "Shadows of the Past," 1981.

"Katy Kline" is performed by
Raymond Fairchild on "Banjo Breakdown," 2000.
The Seekers on "1963-1964"
The Seekers on "Seekers Complete," 1997.
Traditional Grass on "Howdy, Neighbor, Howdy," 1992.

"Katy Klyne" is performed by
The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers on "Bluegrass Favourites," 1963.

Subject: Lyr Add: KATY CLINE
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 10:05 AM

Copied from http://www.bluegrassnet.com/tgbs/K/Katy_Cline.html

KATY CLINE

Well now, who does not know Katy Cline?
She lives at the foot of the hill,
By the shady nook of some old babbling brook
That runs by her dear old father's mill.

CHO: Tell me that you love me, Katy Cline.
Tell me that your love's as true as mine.
Tell me that you love your own turtledove.
Tell me that you love me, Katy Cline.

It's way from my little cabin door.
Oh, it's way from my little cabin home.
There's no one to weep and there's no one to mourn,
And there's no one to see Katy Cline. CHO.

If I was a little bird,
I'd never build my nest on the ground.
I'd build my nest in some high yonder tree
Where them wild boys couldn't tear it down. CHO.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy Cline
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 09:24 AM

This is sung by Harold Hausenfluck, on "Cornbread, Molasses, and Sassafras Tea," an album of Harold's fiddle playing and Abe Horton playing banjo (although on this tune, Harold plays banjo), from 1978 Heritage Records out of Galax, Virginia.

O say that you love me Katy Cline, Katy Cline
O say that you love me, darling do
O say that you love your own turtle dove
O say that you love me, Katy Cline

O I wish that I was a hummingbird, hummingbird
O I wish that I was a hummingbird
I'd build my nest in sweet Katy's breast
Where the bad boys wouldn't bother me

josiah

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy Cline
From: 12-stringer
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 02:42 PM

See also "Free Little Bird," of which "Katie Cline" is a variation. Most if not all the lyrics float freely back and forth.

Now if I was a little fish
I would never swim in the sea
I would swim in the brook where poor Katie hung her hook
On the banks of the old Tennessee

(Allen Bros, "Free Little Bird")

For an unusual variation, see "Take Me Home, Poor Julia" by Uncle Dave, which aspires to a sort of narrative sense and (in the UDM version) is perhaps a condensation of a minstrel stage number. I suspect it derives from FLB and not the other way round.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy Cline
From: Stewie
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 09:12 PM

See Meade et alia 'Country Music Sources' pp223-224 for extensive discography of this and 'Free Little Bird As I Can Be'. Under original title 'Kitty Clyde', Meade gives 'L.V.H. Crosby w&m 1853'. First printed citation is to I.P. Beadle's 'New and Popular Songs' 1859. First recording was by Ernest V. Stoneman under the title 'Katie Kline' in August 1926, released as OK 45065 in January 1927. First recording of 'Free Little Bird' was by Land Norris in July 1925, issued as OK 45006 in November 1925 and first printed citation is to 'JAF XXVI (1913).

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy Cline
From: 12-stringer
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 12:46 AM

Stewie,

What if anything does Meade have to say about "Take Me Home, Poor Julia"?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy Cline
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 04:07 AM

12-Stringer,

Meade includes 'Take Me Home, Poor Julia' in his section titled 'Black Face Minstrel Pieces'. ['Kitty Clyde' and 'Little Bird' are included under 'Miscellaneous Love Lyrics']. He gives no info or citations except to 2 books which contain related pieces: Lydia Parrish 'Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands' Hatboro, Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates Inc 1965 pp122-23 and H.M. Belden and Arthur Palmer Hudson, Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, III, #421, 506-7.

The sole recorded reference is to Uncle Dave's 1927 recording for Vocalion.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy Cline
From: Stewie
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 04:50 AM

Sorry, Joe, for the title-less 'guest' above. I keep forgetting that my weekly cleanup by Norton wipes out my cookie.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy Cline
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 10:16 AM

Hi Stewie and 12-stringer,

Re Take Me Home, Poor Julia (one of my longtime favorites and a staple in my gigs for many years),

The Parrish reference above is to the following. Its tune is not very much like Uncle Dave's:

WAY DOWN ON THE OLD PEEDEE

Cho: Way down on the old Peedee,
      Way down on the old Peedee,
      Summer night the moon shine bright,
      Sally you can see.

I wish that gal was mine (2)
Summer night the moon shine bright,
Sally you can see.

Cho

Goodbye, my honey, I'm gone (2)
If you call me honey spen' my money,
Goodbye, my honey, I'm gone.


The Brown reference (some commentary quoted too) follows. His final example is closer in mood to "Old Uncle Ned," and it reads more like genteel white in origin, but it is interesting anyway.

WAY DOWN ON THE OLD PEEDEE

"Songs about the Peedee appeared early in blackface minstrelsy. Christy's Nigga Songster (New York, n.d., pp. 164-5) has one with a chorus ending"

Way down in the counteree,
Four or fivemiles from de ole Pee Dee.

"Gumbo Chaff's The Ethiopian Glee Book (Boston, 1849, p. 154) includes another of which the following is a sample:

In Souf Carolina I was born,
I husk de wood an chop de corn,
De roastin ear to de house I bring,
De nigger cotch me an I sing:

Cho: Ring de hoop!   Blow de horn!
      Cotch de nigger a stealin corn,
      Way down in the low groun fiel,
      Three-four mile from Pompey's heel.

...

"From Mr. K. P. Lewis, Durham [NC] c. 1915, as set down from the recitation or singing of Dr. Kemp P. Battle, Chapel Hill, in November 1910

Way down on de ole Peedee (2)
I'll take my boat and way I will float
Way down on de ole Peedee.

"... Contributed by Miss Jewell Robbins of Pekin, Montgomery County ... 1922. ...

OLD DARKEY JOE

Away down south, on the old Peedee,
Away down in the cotton and the corn,
There lived old Joe, and he lived so long
That nobody knows when he was born.

Cho   No use now to weep for darkey Joe,
      Sleeping by the tall green corn,
      It doesn't matter now for old darkey Joe,
      Nobody knows where he was born.

The wind blows soft on the old Peedee,
Away down in the cotton and the corn,
Sighing now for old darkey Joe,
But nobody knows where he was born.

There's an old gray stone on the old Peedee,
Away down in the cotton and the corn,
Tell us all when old Joe died,
But nobody knows when he was born.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy Cline
From: Stewie
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 06:18 PM

Thanks for the info, Bob. 'Take me home ...' is also one of my favourites of Uncle Dave.

--Stewie.