Lyr Req: Just a Thing I Do / Cathy O'Grady's Song

Subject: Lyr Req: Bob Gibson's Cathy O'Grady (Ballad of)
From: Greg B
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 04:05 PM

Was remembering a song done by the late Bob Gibson about
Cathy O'Grady, the 'natural Mendocino lady' perhaps
also known as 'it's just a think I do.' The song
relates the story of an aspiring Don Juan having
the tables turned on him when she informs him that
she was just using him.

I have part of it in memory:

Her name
Was Cathy O'Grady
A natural Mendocino lady
I picked her up hitchin' on the road to Caspar
I had a personal question to ask her
She said "come up to my cabin on the mountain above"
I went up...and I fell in love
Next morning when I asked her if she'd be my wife
She told me her philosophy of life

It's just thing I do
To while away an hour or two
Mister let me tell you 'for you're too involved
This ain't the place to get your problem solved
It's just a game I play
To while away a Mendocino rainy day
It's just a thing I do, I do,
It's just a thing I do...

Somethin' like that, anyway :-)

What's the rest?

What've I got wrong?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bob Gibson's Cathy O'Grady (Ballad of)
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 04:11 PM

The song was recorded as

"Just a Thing I Do (Kathy O'Grady's Song)"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bob Gibson's Cathy O'Grady (Ballad of)
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 04:16 PM

I think it may have been co-written with Shel Silverstein.