Poor Little Kate, sits by the gate lonesome and feeling blue,
girls passing by, hear Katie cry oh won't you let me play with you?
Girls turn to go, they answer no, you're a tomboy girl thats why.
With heart so sad, she tells her dad, "You've always been daddy's best girlie, you've always been daddy's best chum, in the days of old and new dear, and the many years to come, you've ner had a mother to guide you or to put your dear hair in a curl, but you're the best little girl in the wide wide world, daddy's little tomboy girl.


My grandmother and mother used to sing this song. Hope it is the one you were looking for.