Oh Kiddo! 1918

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 4 Sep 2009
2009

Oh Billy Brown
was an artful lad
and he loved his blueeyed Kate
On Sunday nights he would hang around
by her father's garden gate.
But that's as far as he dared to go
for her Dad had made that plain;
yet she could hear him singing clear
this sorrowful refrain:

Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Yoo! Hoo!

Now after a while
he was heard no more
by her father's garden gate;
she surely thought he had gone to war,
and she cursed her cruel fate.
But just as she had made up her mind
that she'd not see him again,
her heart was stirred
once more she heard
this sorrowful refrain.

Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Yoo! Hoo!

Her father had him arrested once
and they locked him up in jail;
he couldn't get to the garden gate
on account of lack of bail.
But Kate came down just to cheer him up
and she stood outside the wall
he heard her sing that little thing
the sweetest song of all.

Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Yoo! Hoo!

Her father said Billy's song was fierce
to forget it hard he tried,
he said to Kate: "Don't you sing that song,"
and the girl broke down and cried.
But one fine day, as her father worked
fixing up a window pane
her heart beat fast,
for Dad at last was singing this refrain:

Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Yoo! Hoo!

At last the draft took him for the war
he was sent across the sea;
He got so lonely for little Kate
that he called her constantly.
But in the twilight when all was still
and the wind blew t'wards the shore
She heard it plain this sweet refrain
his little song once more.

Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Yoo! Hoo!

Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
Oh, Kiddo! (whistle)
I'm W A I T I N G for Y O U!
Yoo! Hoo!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Oh Kiddo! 1918
Music by Billy Brown
Lyrics by Blue-eyed Kate
© MCMXVIII by Frank K.Root & Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 5 September 2009 at 22.20
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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