My Irish Katie - 1942

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia

I'd dip my pen in dew
To write a golden sonnet
For my Irish Katie,
For my Irish Katie.
From skies I'd take the blue
And fashion a new bonnet
For my Irish Katie,
For my Irish Katie.
I'd dream a song
And ask a nightingale to bring it;
And all night long
Close to her window he would sing it;
Our wedding bell
The lovely angels all would ring it.
A dove will coo
My love so true, Katie for you.

And in the still of night
The stars above I'll take them
For my Irish Katie,
For my Irish Katie.
And all the stars so bright
A necklace I would make them
For my Irish Katie,
For my Irish Katie.
If she should sigh
And she'd be cross like other misses,
If she should cry,
I'd only punish her with kisses!
If she should die,
I'd follow her. How true all this is!
A dove will coo
My love so true, Katie, for you.

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My Irish Katie 1942
Music by Robert Stolz
Lyric by Gladys Shelley
copyright 1942 by G. Schirmer Inc., U.S.A.
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Saturday 12 Jan 2002 at 09.01
in association with Doug Grierson
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