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"K-K-K-Katy" was a popular World War I-era song written by Canadian American composer Geoffrey O'Hara in 1917 and published in 1918. The sheet music advertised it as "The Sensational Stammering Song Success Sung by the Soldiers and Sailors", as well as "The Sensational New Stammering Song" The song was first played at a garden party fund-raiser for the Red Cross in Collins Bay on Lake Ontario. O'Hara was from Chatham in Ontario and taught music at Ontario University.
The inspiration for the "Katy" of the song was Katherine Craig Richardson of Kingston (who did not stutter). She was a friend of O'Hara's sister and her parents recall O'Hara writing the song in their living room.
Lyrics:
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 while on parade
Kate smiled, with a twinkle in her eye
Jim said, m-m-m-meet ya by and by
That night at eight Jim was at the garden gate
Stuttering this song to K-K-K-Kate (chorus)
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 c-c-c-cowshed
I'll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door
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 c-c-c-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
Soon he'll go to France, the foe to meet
Jimmy thought he'd like to take a chance
See if he could make the Kaiser dance
Stepping to a tune all about the silv'ry moon
This is what they'll hear in far off France (chorus)