{"id":1697,"date":"2006-10-23T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/23\/k-k-k-katy\/"},"modified":"2006-10-23T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T13:54:00","slug":"k-k-k-katy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/23\/k-k-k-katy\/","title":{"rendered":"K-K-K-Katy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate was still an incubating chick when my Dad started singing K-K-K-Katy at the mention of his coming granddaughter. Now, 5 months after her arrival, the omp-pah style song<\/a> about the stuttering soldier and his only love, is Kate’s song. We all know it. We all sing it to her. Including Will.<\/p>\n

(The song has had some lyric adjustment<\/a> over time to be more forgiving of Jimmy’s awkwardness; but we sing the original<\/a>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
Jimmy was a soldier brave and bold,<\/span>
Katy was a maid with hair of gold,<\/span>
Like an act of fate,<\/span>
Kate was standing at the gate,<\/span>
Watching all the boys on dress parade.<\/span>
Jimmy with the girls was just a gawk,<\/span>
Stuttered ev\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ry time he tried to talk,<\/span>
Still that night at eight,<\/span>
He was there at Katy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gate,<\/span>
Stuttering to her this love sick cry.<\/span>
<\/span><\/div>\n

CHORUS [sung twice after each verse]
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy,
You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the only g-g-g-girl that I adore;
When the m-m-m-moon shines,
Over the cowshed,
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122’ll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
<\/span> <\/p>\n

No one ever looked so nice and neat,<\/span>
No one could be just as cute and sweet,<\/span>
That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what Jimmy thought,<\/span>
When the wedding ring he bought,<\/span>
Now he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s off to France the foe to meet.<\/span>
Jimmy thought he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to take a chance,<\/span>
See if he could make the Kaiser dance,<\/span>
Stepping to a tune,<\/span>
All about the silv\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ry moon,<\/span>
This is what they hear in far off France.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Will sings it here<\/a>. Will and I sing it here<\/a>. And here<\/a> is just a minute of Paul and I playing with Kate after bedtime. (Note Will’s stuffy nose and Kate’s cough — poor kids!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kate was still an incubating chick when my Dad started singing K-K-K-Katy at the mention of his coming granddaughter. Now, 5 months after her arrival, the omp-pah style song about the stuttering soldier and his only love, is Kate’s song. We all know it. We all sing it to her. Including Will. (The song has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}