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Lyr Req: Don't Cry, Katie (Dick Glasser)

09 Oct 00 - 06:42 PM (#315064)
Subject: Lyric Req: Don't Cry, Katie
From: Haruo

Trying to recall a song that goes something like
Don't cry, Katie, I'll be comin' back to you-ou-ou
Don't cry, Katie, even though I'm gone,
My love will still be true
I'll be gone for maybe just a year
Don't cry, Katie, ...

Basically trying to remember if there was any more substance to the lyrics, or just the vague insipidity cited. Also, whose recording of it I might be recalling from childhood (I'm thinking like Brothers Four or Chad Mitchell Trio or...?)

Liland

09 Oct 00 - 06:49 PM (#315070)
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Don't Cry, Katie
From: Robby

I know you can find the lyrics at the Kingston Trio Place,

http://home.att.net/~kingstontrioplace

I still haven't learned enough about HTML to give a little blue clicky thing. I first learned this song from a Kingston Trio LP, way back

Good luck in looking. It will take a little time to scroll down through the opening page to the "lyrics" link.

09 Oct 00 - 07:07 PM (#315084)
Subject: Lyr Add: DON'T CRY, KATIE (Dick Glasser)
From: Robby

What the hell, Liland, I went and copied the lyrics from the Trio's place. If this works they'll be pasted to this message, but they won't be in Mudcat format. I hope this works and will try to put it in html.

DON'T CRY, KATIE
Dick Glasser

Chorus:
Don't cry, Katie.
I'll be comin' back to you, you, you.
Don't cry, Katie, even though I'm gone, my love will still be true.

I'll be gone for maybe just a year.
Don't cry, Katie. Even though I'm gone, my love will still be here.
Don't cry, Katie.

(Chorus)

You'll be in my dreams though you are far away.
Don't cry, Katie.
Have a little faith and I'll return some day.
Don't cry, Katie.

Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, Katie.
Don't cry, Katie, I'll be comin' back to you. Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, Katie.
Even though I'm gone, my love will still be true.

(Chorus)

When I return, darling, we can be together.
Don't cry, Katie.
Then we can share our precious love forever.
Don't cry, Katie.

(Chorus)

Were these the lyrics that you wanted? I hope so.

Robby

09 Oct 00 - 07:09 PM (#315085)
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Don't Cry, Katie
From: Haruo

Thanks! The lyric is just as nearly devoid of depth as I thought! And I found a couple of other things I was looking for there. For one thing, it's got a version of the Old Maid's Song (Take Me Out of Pity) that has "pins man" where my version has "kinsman" and Digitrad has "pinsman" (of course, for Search purposes "pins man" and "pinsman" might as well be in different alphabets, for all a computer can see a connection ;-)...

Also, I thought the Kingston Trio did the John Birch Society song, but I don't see it there. Anybody know who did? I refer to the one with the line "Fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the Right" in it...

Liland

09 Oct 00 - 07:12 PM (#315089)
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Don't Cry, Katie
From: Robby

Liland,
The John Birch Society was performed by the Chad Mitchell Trio. While I have their recording on LP vinyl, I have not committed the lyrics to memory. maybe someone else has and can help on this one.

09 Oct 00 - 07:14 PM (#315091)
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Don't Cry, Katie
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Liland - THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY (click) was recorded by the Chad Mitchell Trio.
-Joe Offer-

09 Oct 00 - 07:20 PM (#315095)
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Don't Cry, Katie
From: Haruo

Thanks. I must admit those three groups, CMT, KT, B4, are very foggily recorded on my childhood tapes.

Liland

10 Oct 00 - 08:00 AM (#315376)
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Don't Cry, Katie
From: Robby

Joe,
I was not looking for the lyrics to The John Birch Society, and so was unaware it was in the DT. Thanks for providing that link. I think I enjoyed it more today than when I first heard it at The Bitter End.

10 Oct 00 - 10:55 AM (#315459)
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Don't Cry, Katie
From: LR Mole

Yas...somewhere, out in the shed, perhaps, I have the 45 of the Chad Mitchell Trio doing "Lizzie Borden" (" 'cause you can't cut your papa up in Masachusetts...), backed with "Super Skier" ("When they finallt got him down they had to use three toboggans/To carry all the pieces down the hill...") Boy, there's a John Denver joke in heinous taste lurking just beyond the horizon.

10 Oct 00 - 11:01 AM (#315464)
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Don't Cry, Katie
From: Haruo

Lizzie Borden is in the Digitrad (I refound it again, too, yesterday), too, under the title FALL RIVER HOEDOWN (Lizzie Borden). Incidentally, I just noticed yesterday that Lizzie's middle name was Andrew, same as her dad's given name. Wonder if she resented that. Also, although the song calls her Elizabeth Borden, my encyclopedia says Lizzie Andrew Borden. Curious.

Liland