(I’m W-A-I-T-I-N-G for Y-O-U)
A popular song from 1918
Words by Blue-Eyed Kate
Music by Billy Brown
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Oh, Billy Brown was an artful lad
And he loved his blue-eyed 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
CHORUS
Oh, Kiddo! Oh, Kiddo!
I’m W-A-I-T-I-N-G for Y-O-U
Oh, Kiddo! Oh, Kiddo!
I’m W-A-I-T-I-N-G for Y-O-U
Yoo! hoo!
2. Now after a while he was heard no more
By her father’s garden gate
She surely tho’t he had gone to war
And she curs’d her cruel fate
BUT just as she had made up her mind
That she’d not see him again
Her heart was stiff’d, once more she heard
This sorrowful refrain
3. 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:
4. Her father said Billy’s song was fierce,
To forget it hard he tried;
He said to Kate, “Dont 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:
5. 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 towards the shore,
She heard it plain this sweet refrain,
His little song once more: