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01 Mar 99 - 06:30 PM (#60917) Subject: Beautiful Katie From: lyda.woods@aspect.com Does anyone know where I can get the lyrics and chord progressions for "Beautiful Katie"? The song goes: Kukukukatie,....beautiful Katie, You're the only Gugugugirl that I adore, When the Mumumoon shines, over the ????? I'll be knocking at your Kikikikitchen door! (For those of you who think I can't type, I'm trying to show that the singer is supposed to STUTTER on key sounds!) Thanks a bunch! Lyda :) |
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01 Mar 99 - 06:52 PM (#60923) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie From: Martin _Ryan ?????? = "cowshed", if I remember my barbershop days! Regards |
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01 Mar 99 - 08:21 PM (#60934) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie From: Roger in Baltimore Lyda, With Martin's addition, those are the only words I have ever heard for this song. Roger in Baltimore |
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01 Mar 99 - 08:50 PM (#60936) Subject: ADD: K-K-K Katie From: Musicman Here you go, two verses included: Jimmy was a soldier brave and bold Katey was a maid with hair of gold. Like an act of fate, Kate was standing at the gate Watching all the boys on dress parade. Jimmy with the girls was such a gawk, Stuttered every time he tried to talk, Still that night at eight, he was there at Katie's gate, Stuttering to her this love sick cry. K-K-K Katie, Beautiful Katie, You're the only g-g-g-girl that I adore, When the m-m-m-moon shines, over the cowshed, I'll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door. No-one ever was so nice and neat, No-one could be just as cute and sweet, That's what Jimmy thought when the wedding ring he bought Now he's off to France the Foe to meet. Jimmy thought he'd like to take chance. See if he could make the Kaiser dance, Stepping to a tune all about the slivery moon, This is what they hear in far off France, Chorus again. I have a copy of the sheet music at home from that era. The music says on the cover that this is "The Sensation Stuttering song that the Sailors and Soldiers Sing" The copy is also reduced in size as a "War Edition" to conserve paper. I don't know how to send a file in Mudcat so I will send you a midi file of the melody via email. Musicman |
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09 Jan 03 - 05:47 PM (#863004) Subject: ADD Verses: K-K-K-Katy From: Joe Offer These lyrics are almost the same as what Musicman posted, but there are a few corrections. Source: A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody and other Favorite Song Hits, 1918-1919 (David A. Jasen, Dover Publications, 1997) K-K-K-KATY (Geoffrey O'Hara) Jimmy was a soldier brave and bold. Katy was a maid with hair of gold. Like an act of fate, Kate was standing at the gate Watching all the boys on dress parade. Jimmy with the girls was just a gawk, Stuttered every time he tried to talk. Still that night at eight, He was there at Katy's gate, Stuttering to her this lovesick cry: CHORUS: K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy, You're the only g-g-g-girl that I adore. When the m-m-m-moon shines over the cowshed, I'll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door. No one ever looked so nice and neat. No one could be just as cute and sweet. That's what Jimmy thought, When the wedding ring he bought. Now he's off to France the foe to meet. Jimmy thought he'd like to take chance, See if he could make the Kaiser dance. Stepping to a tune, All about the silv'ry moon, This is what they hear in far off France: CHORUS Words and music by Geoffrey O'Hara, Army song Leader (born in Chatham, Ontario, in 1882) "Lovingly dedicated to K-K-K-Katy Richardson, who inspired this song." copyright 1918, by Leo Feist, Inc. The sheet music bills the song as "The Sensational Stammering Song Success Sung by the Soldiers and Sailors." The Great Song Thesaurus says French lyrics for this song were written by A. Bollaert. I'd love to see the French version. |
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09 Jan 03 - 06:13 PM (#863018) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Burke Go Here for the sheet music in the Levy Collection. |
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09 Jan 03 - 06:29 PM (#863041) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: masato sakurai Also at Historic American Sheet Music: K-K-K-Katy |
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09 Jan 03 - 09:44 PM (#863202) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Stilly River Sage The only thing I would add to this is that when we sang it (I have a sister named Katy) we put a little extra emphasis on "C-C-C-cowshead." SRS |
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09 Jan 03 - 11:50 PM (#863269) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Noreen Aw.... my grandad used to sing this to us. |
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10 Jan 03 - 12:08 AM (#863279) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Haruo c-c-c-cowshed, Stilly, not c-c-c-cowshead! What a thing to say about your sister's looks! ;-) Haruo |
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10 Jan 03 - 03:07 AM (#863333) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Kaleea Wow! Earlier this evening, I was sitting here doing my email duty, when a song pops into my head & will NOT go away! Yep! You guessed it, K-K-K-Katie, . . . I used to sing it to a terriffic lady by the same name who was in a nursing home where I worked. She had Alzheimers' & had very little ability to communicate. She always brightened up when I sang it to her. I did the "c-c-c-cowshEd," too. With the nursing home set it's fun to sing the "name" songs to the person with that name--there are lots of them. The old Irish-American songs are still fun to sing! |
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10 Jan 03 - 11:32 AM (#863535) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: masato sakurai "K-K-K-Katy" (as sung by Billy Murray, Victor Record, 1917) is HERE. ~Masato |
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10 Jan 03 - 02:42 PM (#863718) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Genie Then there's the "Army version:" K-K-K-K.P., dirty ol' K.P., You're the only j-j-j-job that I abhor. When the m-moon shines over the mess hall, I'll be mopping up the k-k-k-kitchen floor. |
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10 Jan 03 - 02:55 PM (#863736) Subject: RE: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Stilly River Sage Haruo, Wow! I wish I'd thought that up myself when I was a kid! Of course, Katy disliked the song anyway, but to call her a Cow's Head! (Would that have been a Freudian typo?) Nowadays I don't think that way, of course. But as a kid, that would have been pure torturous gold. ;-) SRS |
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11 Jan 03 - 10:38 AM (#864388) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Firecat I used to get that sung at me as well! Katy! |
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02 May 03 - 12:06 AM (#944649) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,lindahessa@cs.com I'd like to purchase a copy of the record or tape, etc. of KKK Katie. Can you tell me how I can obtain it? |
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02 May 03 - 05:23 AM (#944739) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: masato sakurai Billy Murray's recording (1918) is downloadable from HERE (Vintage Audio: K-K-K-Katy). ~Masato |
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02 May 03 - 10:44 AM (#944893) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: radriano I stuttered heavily as a child and still sometimes do. These songs may be fun to sing but personally I find them offensive. There's no way that the stuttering parts aren't meant to be funny. I'm sure someone will say why can't we laugh at our problems but I'll bet you anything that person never stuttered. |
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01 Jan 05 - 07:08 PM (#1369023) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,inspector1@charter.net Quite without intention, I have stumbled across this thread and, at this moment, as I try to type, tears are pouring from my eyes as I sing aloud that which I as a preschooler and my mother sang together nearly sixty years ago. Key of F. To "radriano" (message above dated 02 May 03) I can say only this: I stuttered terribly as a child and sometimes stutter and stammer like there was no tomorrow. My mommy stuttered. My poppy stammered. I would give the sight of both my aged eyes to hear their voices stuttering and stammering away today. Be not offended, radriano, at a gentle and sweet little song that my mommy's daddy brought back from WWI. Grampa, a stutterer, served with the AEF in Europe and won, thereby, his citizenship as an American. Three Purple Hearts. Bronze Star. Silver Star. He was gassed at Chateau Thierry but kept the 9mm Luger that, the day before, he took off the German officer he killed with his hands. I still have the Luger and fire it every few years. I still have the stammer and use it periodically, especially when I get excited. So what offends you, dear soul? Larry Dorr MI |
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02 Jan 05 - 12:03 AM (#1369168) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Ferrara Genie, I was pleased to see the Army parody. Here's another, from my dad's WWII Army songbook ("Give Out! - Songs Of, For and By the Men in the Service") Not terribly tasteful I'm afraid.... - Rita C-C-C-Cootie, Horrible Cootie, You're the only bug that I abhor. When the m-m-m-moon shines Over the bunkhouse, I will scratch my b-b-b-back until it's sore! |
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02 Jan 05 - 07:33 AM (#1369277) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Flash Company I seem to recall Mel Blanc recording this and making the stutter totally impossible, ending with:- I'll be waiting by the k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k Oh shucks, I'll be there! FC |
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09 Mar 05 - 09:22 AM (#1430525) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,LP Try this link http://firstworldwar.com/audio/Billy%20Murray%20-%20K-K-K-Katy.mp3 Lp |
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09 Mar 05 - 07:02 PM (#1431035) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: radriano Dear guestInspector, Kindly allow me my opinion. I am offended because this song is meant to be humorous and I find nothing humorous about stuttering. When you say, "I would give the sight of both my aged eyes to hear their voices stuttering and stammering away today" what you really mean is that you would love to see them again, not that you love their stuttering. A "gentle and sweet little song" it is not although I do not dispute your right to interpret it that way. Your memories are your own. Do not insist that I share them. All of my relatives on my mother's side where killed in World War II. They were not soldiers but civilians who were murdered. Please spare me your maudlin memories of a horrific part of history. |
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10 Mar 05 - 12:00 AM (#1431219) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: open mike Radriano..my sympathies for the suffering of your family members. I am glad you are here and glad you are able to find joy in song. On the other hand, sometimes the amazing power of music is able to erase halting speech. I knew a friend who had many difficulties in speaking, but was able to sing smoothly and flawlessly. Perhaps it is a different part of the brain used for singing than for speaking? Or perhaps because the lyrics can be predicted and practiced. I saw a documentary recently where stutterers wer able to learn to control their breathing mainly by placing a belt-like band around their chest to help them control their breathing and speaking. this was a Swedish method and had incredibly positive results. the people in the program were able after a couple of weeks of practice, to stand on a street corner and give a speech to passing strangers!! No small accomplishment..more info here: http://www.stammeringcentre.org/links/stammering.html http://www.swedish.org/16888.cfm\ http://www.stutterisa.org/ |
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10 Mar 05 - 12:57 AM (#1431248) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Amos The chords are C, G, D7, and F, I believe. A |
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10 Mar 05 - 11:27 AM (#1431575) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: radriano Thank you, Open Mike. Talking and singing are indeed operated by different parts of the brain. Some stuttering therapies actually suggest that stutterers "sing it" instead of "say it" - of course, this is not only impractical but inappropriate(sp?) for most circumstances. I went through a stuttering therapy program at the University of Chicago that literally re-taught a person to talk. The idea was that once you started gaining positive results you could replace old speech patterns with new ones. It was ultimately a study in futility. For a majority of the people involved in the program, myself included, stuttering was eradicated temporarily. The problem is that stuttering is as mental as it is physical. In my particular case I soon resumed stuttering because the cause of my probem was never resolved. It's kind of like going on a crash diet to lose weight. You can lose the weight but once you resume old eating habits the weight comes back. The only way to keep excess weight off is to either perpetually be on a diet or to figure out why you feel the need to eat so much. |
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15 Jun 05 - 03:37 PM (#1501818) Subject: K-K-K-Katy - lookin for sheets From: GUEST,metax@aon.at who could help me? I am looking for the sheet music of K-K-K-Katy. Could anyone send me the sheets or tell me, if and where I can download them? thanks |
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28 Jan 07 - 03:08 PM (#1950610) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,Katie Girl This song has been sung to me my whole life, as a kid I found it annoying but as an adult I became very fond of it, and the meaning behind it. I also find it comical that my first boyfriend studdered his name was Ricky not Jimmy. |
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15 Mar 07 - 10:23 PM (#1998110) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,shassta I have always loved the song k-k-k katie... (I was looking up the lyrics as I am considering to name my little girl (due early July) Kaitlyn (katie/katy for short) and am sure that if I do that I will be singing this to my little treasure. And as for the stuttering. I once had a friend (who stuttered, who got embarrassed himself. He was talking to a lady (while doing his work duties) and as she was talking to him, she was stuttering worse than he did, he berated her for making fun of his stutter then was left with egg on his face when he found out she wasn't making fun of him, she just happened to have a stutter that was worse than his. And my dear uncle used to say that they wouldn't let him in the army because by the time he could say h-h-h-halt w-who g-goes t-there it would be too late. |
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16 Mar 07 - 06:23 AM (#1998306) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: masato sakurai Voices of Liberty sing "K-K-K-Katie," inserted in "You Are My Sunshine." (click here at YouTube). |
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25 Jun 07 - 01:17 PM (#2086606) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,Gary Oh... cow-SHED. Heh, and all this time I thought it was cow-SH*T. ;-) |
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28 Jun 07 - 05:16 AM (#2088871) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Genie Amos, when I do this song (just the chorus and parody, not the verse), all I need is the 1-4-5 chord progression. (In C, I wouldn't need the D7.) Genie |
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28 Jun 07 - 01:40 PM (#2089258) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,GI Joe would you believe we can NOT sing this song at Scout Camp as it is not PC and would offend anyone who stutters. |
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31 Jul 07 - 12:29 PM (#2115666) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,squeeze box Gary Guest Read your desire to play klezmer on concertina. Am trying the same. Please emaio at massatty @isp.com Squeeze box |
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31 Jul 07 - 12:51 PM (#2115694) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Q (Frank Staplin) PC gone mad! |
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12 Aug 07 - 10:49 PM (#2124537) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST I remember my Dad (who now is 89) singing to us all when we were kids. Now he has a great-grandaughter whos name is Kaitlyn (Katie for short) and I find myself singing it to her. Her father wanted me to look up the whole song because all I could remember was the chorus. Thanks, its a fun song. Debbie |
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05 Dec 07 - 02:34 PM (#2209295) Subject: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=9434&mes From: topical tom K-K-K-KATY (copy and paste to address bar) |
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05 Dec 07 - 02:54 PM (#2209320) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: topical tom Sorry! I see the vintage version of the song was posted at least twice before. I didn't read enough of the thread. |
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06 Dec 07 - 01:57 PM (#2209876) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego As I remember it, this song only has about three major chords. Find your key, and the rest will follow. For example, G,A,D,G. |
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06 Dec 07 - 11:09 PM (#2210232) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Jon Bartlett Note also the parody "T-T-T-Trotsky" in the DT. Jon Bartlett |
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19 May 10 - 04:48 PM (#2910127) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,Beth Can't remember the name of the person who wrote that they were offended by the song, all I can say is that I'm sorry for you that you feel that way, that you have never come to terms with your unique way to speak. I think the song is very sweet and I sing it almost everyday to my Irish Wolfhound, Kadee... she loves the song and I can just see the pure delight in her face and eyes the minute I start singing it. Also a comment on the gentleman who said he'd love to hear his mothers voice again.. I remember my grandmother singing "Go West Young Man" and she'd play that picture record on that old phonograph.. when I was a little girl I used to think she was just silly, but since she's been gone from my life for 6 years now, I would just melt to hear here singing that song and dancing around with me again! I may not be as old as some that have commented on here, but I do get it, that life is just way too short and sweet to let silly songs upset me. |
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19 May 10 - 06:13 PM (#2910174) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Genie Re the stutterers and PC issue, I don't see this song as making fun of stutterers. I think it's sort of gently teasing a guy who was so shy and nervous around GIRLS that he would stutter whenever he tried to talk to one, especially one he was "sweet on." The protagonist (?) in this song is not nececessarily a stutterer in other situations, including the kind of frightening situations he might find himself in as a soldier. He is just very insecure when it comes to approaching the object of his affection. Flash, that Mel Blanc recording sounds like he was singing it as Porky Pig. Now, I can understand why Porky and Thylvethter and Ewmew Fudd may offend some people as not PC, because they were characters for whom one of the principal jokes was their speech defects. Put I don't see that as the case with "Jimmy" in this song; the joke is his shyness and nervousness around women he's attracted to. Rita, I love the "C-c-c-cootie" version! |
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09 Oct 10 - 04:33 PM (#3003392) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,mayor of bunkerhill Does anyone know where i can get a copy of the recording of "Katie" by any artist including blanc? |
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09 Oct 10 - 04:40 PM (#3003397) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Tiger I have an MP3 I can send you, or perhaps post. I'd have to have Mudcat host it though, I can't do that. It's from 1918, done by Billy Murray. |
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11 Oct 10 - 06:46 AM (#3004298) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Jim Dixon The Internet Archive has several recordings of K-K-K-KATY: Buddy Clark - vocal of verses and chorus Terry Shand Orch - jazzy arrangement; vocal of chorus only US Army Band 158th Infantry - Instrumental only with whistling Player Piano - Instrumental only |
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22 Oct 10 - 07:42 AM (#3012892) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,mobh Thank you for the information but i do not have the ability to download anything on my antique dial up system. I would like to know where i can perhaps purchase a CD |
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27 Oct 10 - 04:36 PM (#3017122) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Jim Dixon Mobh: try this. |
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03 Jan 11 - 08:50 PM (#3066659) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST I want to thank you very much for the info on Katy. The reason i wanted it is the fact that i have a grandaughter who lives in Germany and is 10 years old. She is already becoming quite a good piano player and her name is Katelyn, but is commonly refered to by her mother and many others as Katy. I am going to send the CD and the sheet music that i now have,thanks to you people, to her very soon and i am sure it will be a huge hit with everyone there. Thanks again! To Jim Dixon, if you would contact me at 906-482-7921 i would like to send you a bottle of my homemade jam. |
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14 Feb 12 - 03:03 PM (#3308509) Subject: Audio file: K-K-K-Katy (Beautiful Katie) From: Genie You can hear Billy Murray's Edison disc recording of "K-k-k-katy" on YouTube. |
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14 Feb 12 - 03:32 PM (#3308526) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray KKK??? You gotta be joking... |
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18 Feb 12 - 10:31 PM (#3310807) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: Genie Hmmm. Well, the actual song is pronounced "Kuh-kuh-kuh-Katy,"Suibhne. But I think "KKK Katy" (pronounced as in "the Klan") would make for some great parodies! |
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08 Jun 20 - 01:37 PM (#4058185) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST I know this is not perfect, but this is the closest I can do to the chord progression I made an attempt at analizing. This is in D major D-B7 E7 K-K-K Katie! Beautiful Katie! A A- Cm(dim) A7 You’re the only g-g-g-girl that I adore D B7 When the m-m-m-moon shines E7 Over the cowshed A A7 D -G-D I’ll be waiting at the k-k-kitchen door. |
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08 Jun 20 - 01:54 PM (#4058187) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Beautiful Katie / K-K-K-Katy From: GUEST,jim bainbridge My mother in South Shields used to sing 'K-k-k-Katy, she swallowed a tatie A tuppeny fish and a penn'orth of chips The night before The night before that, she swallowed a dorrmat Now she's trying to swallow the k-k-k-kitchen door....' |