K-K-K-Katie, Beautiful Katie
You’re the only g-g-g-girl that I adore
You’re the only g-g-g-girl that I adore
When the m-m-m-moon shines
Over the c-c-c-cow shed
I’ll be waiting for you at the k-k-k-kitchen door!
Happy Birthday Katie!
Dadzoo’s Grandma use to sing this song to Katie when she was a baby
Billed as “The Sensational Stammering Song Success Sung by the Soldiers and Sailors”, K-K-K-Katy was written by Geoffrey O’Hara and published in 1918.
Hugely popular it was regarded as something of a ‘goodbye’ song. The ‘Katy’ in the song was Katherine Richardson of Kingston, and was composed at Richardson’s house in 1917 by O’Hara (although curiously Katherine did not actually possess a stutter).
The song was first played at a garden party fund-raiser for the Red Cross in Collins Bay on Lake Ontario. O’Hara himself was from Chatham in Ontario and taught music at Ontario University. He lived until the age of 84, passing away i January 1967.
