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20 Aug 04 - 05:32 PM (#1252452) Subject: Lyr Req: Katy and the Navajo Rug From: Barbara Subject: RE: Need Lyrics to Ian Tyson song: navajo rug From: GUEST Date: 20 Aug 04 - 12:36 PM -------------------------------------------------------- A GUEST posted this to another Ian and Sylvia thread. I did learn that the song is composed in 1986 by Ian Tyson and Tom Russell and is called 'Katy and the Navajo Rug' rather than just 'Navajo Rug', but I didn't find the words, so I am starting a new thread here. Blessings, Barbara |
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20 Aug 04 - 05:46 PM (#1252467) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy and the Navajo Rug From: Chris in Wheaton one line is about "two eggs up and whiskey toast" -- sounds great, especially with a little salsa, and a bump |
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20 Aug 04 - 05:48 PM (#1252470) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy and the Navajo Rug From: Tig I sort of wish you hadn't posted this Barbara. I'd only JUST got the chorus out of my head having heard it on Monday night at the Watering Hole and now it's right back in there! If no one comes up with the words for you before Monday I'll give Cuvero Nights a ring and get them for you. I know it's on their CD but I don't think the words are there too. |
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20 Aug 04 - 06:58 PM (#1252521) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy and the Navajo Rug From: Louie Roy I'M downloading this song right now on a MP3 off of one of Ian Tyson site but I don't know whether there are any words |
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20 Aug 04 - 07:20 PM (#1252537) Subject: Lyr Add: NAVAJO RUG (Ian Tyson/Tom Russell) From: Midchuck From a Jerry Jeff Walker lyric site: Peter. Ian Tyson/Tom Russell Well it's two eggs up on whiskey toast Home fries on the side, You wash her down with the roadhouse coffee that burns up your inside, It's just a canyon, Colorado diner, A waitress I did love, We sat in the back 'neath an old stuffed bear, A worn out Navajo rug. Aye, aye, aye, Katie, Shades of red and blue Aye, aye, aye, Katie, Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you? Well, old Jack the boss, he left at six It was, 'Katie, bar the door'. She'd pull down that Navajo rug And we'd spread it across the floor, I saw lightning frame the sacred mountains The wooing of the turtle doves Just Iying next to Katie, On that old Navajo rug. Aye, aye, aye, Katie, Shades of red and blue Aye, aye, aye, Katie, Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you? Well, I saw old Jack about a year ago, Said the place burned to the ground, All he saved was an old bear tooth And Katie she left town, Well, Katie, got a souvenir too, Jack smiled as he spit out a big old plug, Well, you shoulda seen her coming through the smoke She was dragging that Navajo rug. Aye, aye, aye, Katie, Shades of red and blue Aye, aye, aye, Katie, Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you? So every time I cross the sacred mountains And lightning jumps above, It always takes me back in time To my long lost Katie love, You know everything keeps on a moving Everybody's on the go, Hey, you don't find things that last anymore Like a hand-woven Navajo. Aye, aye, aye, Katie, Shades of red and blue Aye, aye, aye, Katie, Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you! |
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20 Aug 04 - 10:00 PM (#1252664) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy and the Navajo Rug From: open mike http://navajocentral.org/rugs.htm http://www.canyonart.com/rugs.htm |
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20 Aug 04 - 10:05 PM (#1252671) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy and the Navajo Rug From: Little Hawk An excellent song. I've heard the words slightly different, but substantially as shown above. |
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21 Aug 04 - 01:58 AM (#1252784) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy and the Navajo Rug From: PoppaGator I just read elsewhere -- in the just-refreshed thread about Sing Out! magazine, which includes some discussion of Tom Russell and this song he co-wrote with Ian Tyson -- that "whiskey toast" means rye toast. Undoubtedly, this is occupational terminology among diner waitresses and short-order cooks. Makes plenty of sense once you're clued in, but I might never have figured it out on my own. Ian apparently wrote the song near-complete, and then Tom added the "aye, aye, aye" vocal riff while singing along and thus gets credit for creating the chorus in its fully-developed form. |
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21 Aug 04 - 03:33 PM (#1252975) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Katy and the Navajo Rug From: bigchuck I saw Tom in concert last week and he introduced this song as the first song he cowrote with Ian. If I remember correctly, he said that he started writing the song and put what verses he had in Ian's guitar case without telling him about it (probably some liquid substances involved)and that Ian called him a week later, saying he'd finished the damned song and thought it was a hit. Apparently he was too much in awe of Ian to approach him more directly. It was a pretty good rap, but then most of Tom's are. Sandy |