Katie, Lyrics and chords by Mary Black
The version of the guitar chords in G are very easy to play, just a simple 3 chord job.The sheet music notes for tin whistle are included. And written by Jimmy McCarthy. Go to the section of Mary Black songs for more of her lyrics and guitar chords .
This is a more simplified version of the chords, a straight forward three chord job. have a look at other sites which include this song and you will find that they all have the same chords, they have all copied from each other, the chords they use include, Bm7, C/B, Cmaj7 and Am/E, The likes of them chords are way too difficult for the average guitar player, I believe in keeping songs easy for the player. But I also included the chords as used in the Mary Black version anyway.
The mandolin / tenor banjo tab for Katie is in the ebook of mandolin tabs here .
This is a more simplified version of the chords, a straight forward three chord job. have a look at other sites which include this song and you will find that they all have the same chords, they have all copied from each other, the chords they use include, Bm7, C/B, Cmaj7 and Am/E, The likes of them chords are way too difficult for the average guitar player, I believe in keeping songs easy for the player. But I also included the chords as used in the Mary Black version anyway.
The mandolin / tenor banjo tab for Katie is in the ebook of mandolin tabs here .
About The Song Katie By Jimmy McCarthy
It was in Aarau that I also finished 'Katie'. I had started this song some time before, with a working title of "The Room', but it didn't have a chorus
or a third verse. The chorus subject matter was borrowed from the lifescape of another person (thanks for the clearance, Declan), but the sentiment was perfect, and seemed to complete the song. Then, with this new aspect in place, I got a final flash of inspiration for the last verse with an image from Newgrange and the makings of a first crossover hit for the fast-rising star of Mary Black. This, along with my growing body of recorded works, would soon be my redemption in clearing my debt, which I'm glad to say I eventually did.
It was in Aarau that I also finished 'Katie'. I had started this song some time before, with a working title of "The Room', but it didn't have a chorus
or a third verse. The chorus subject matter was borrowed from the lifescape of another person (thanks for the clearance, Declan), but the sentiment was perfect, and seemed to complete the song. Then, with this new aspect in place, I got a final flash of inspiration for the last verse with an image from Newgrange and the makings of a first crossover hit for the fast-rising star of Mary Black. This, along with my growing body of recorded works, would soon be my redemption in clearing my debt, which I'm glad to say I eventually did.
[G]Tumbling curls of green[C] by stainglass streaming light
And a yellow[D] coloured lamp[G]shade used to keep us up all[D] night
[G]And the smile upon her face, the[C] tears upon your cheek
And the night sky[D] on the[G] window
Your heart calling out to[D] me.
Chorus
[G]Come running home again, katie
Come [C]running home again
Cross my[D] heart and[G] hope to[C] die
Shall I cause another tear from your [D]eye Katie
The[G] mirror that won’t talk and your[C] nightgown on the door
And the old[D] pedal[G] singer just don’t sing no[D] more
You[G] can roll the reels for hours
From the[C] movie of this book
It’s a question mark[D] on this[G] heart of mine
Sends an elder back to[C] look.
Chorus
Now I’m looking through a tunnel
Back into the room
With the genius of a druid when the sunlight floods the tomb
And I’m never going back there, and I couldn’t anyway
’cause though I made the great escape
I never got away.
And a yellow[D] coloured lamp[G]shade used to keep us up all[D] night
[G]And the smile upon her face, the[C] tears upon your cheek
And the night sky[D] on the[G] window
Your heart calling out to[D] me.
Chorus
[G]Come running home again, katie
Come [C]running home again
Cross my[D] heart and[G] hope to[C] die
Shall I cause another tear from your [D]eye Katie
The[G] mirror that won’t talk and your[C] nightgown on the door
And the old[D] pedal[G] singer just don’t sing no[D] more
You[G] can roll the reels for hours
From the[C] movie of this book
It’s a question mark[D] on this[G] heart of mine
Sends an elder back to[C] look.
Chorus
Now I’m looking through a tunnel
Back into the room
With the genius of a druid when the sunlight floods the tomb
And I’m never going back there, and I couldn’t anyway
’cause though I made the great escape
I never got away.
Katie - Mary Black
Here are the chords for the Mary Black version.
The intro =
[Cm] [Dm] [Eb] [Cm] [ F] [Bb] [ Dm] Eb]
[Bb]Tumbling curls of green[Dm] by [Eb]stainglass streaming [Cm]light
And a yellow co[Bb]loured lamp shade [Dm]used to [Eb]keep us up all[F]] night
And the [Bb]smile upon her [Dm]face, the[Eb] tears upon your [Cm]cheek
And the night sky[Bb] on the[G] window[Dm]
Your [Eb]heart calling out to[F] me.
Chorus
Come [Bb]running [Cm]home a[Dm]gain, katie
Come [Eb]running home a[Cm]gain
Cross my[F] heart and[Dm] hope to die
Shall I [Eb]cause another [F]tear from your eye Katie
The[Bb] mirror that won’t [Dm]talk and your[Eb]] nightgown on the [Cm]door[Eb]
And the [Cm]old [F]pedal[Bb] singer [Dm]just [Eb]don’t sing no[F] more
You can [Bb]roll the reels for hou[Dm]rs
From the[Eb]] movie of this [Cm]book
It’s a question mark[F] on this[Bb] heart of mine
Sends an [Eb]elder back to[F] look.
Chorus
The intro =
[Cm] [Dm] [Eb] [Cm] [ F] [Bb] [ Dm] Eb]
[Bb]Tumbling curls of green[Dm] by [Eb]stainglass streaming [Cm]light
And a yellow co[Bb]loured lamp shade [Dm]used to [Eb]keep us up all[F]] night
And the [Bb]smile upon her [Dm]face, the[Eb] tears upon your [Cm]cheek
And the night sky[Bb] on the[G] window[Dm]
Your [Eb]heart calling out to[F] me.
Chorus
Come [Bb]running [Cm]home a[Dm]gain, katie
Come [Eb]running home a[Cm]gain
Cross my[F] heart and[Dm] hope to die
Shall I [Eb]cause another [F]tear from your eye Katie
The[Bb] mirror that won’t [Dm]talk and your[Eb]] nightgown on the [Cm]door[Eb]
And the [Cm]old [F]pedal[Bb] singer [Dm]just [Eb]don’t sing no[F] more
You can [Bb]roll the reels for hou[Dm]rs
From the[Eb]] movie of this [Cm]book
It’s a question mark[F] on this[Bb] heart of mine
Sends an [Eb]elder back to[F] look.
Chorus
Jimmy McCarthy song Bright Blue Rose
Malachi interview with Mary Black
I'm joined on the line all the way from Dublin by one of the first ladies of Irish song Mary Black you're very very welcome to the program thank you Malachy I have to say firstly it's a personal honor for me to have you on the program because I've been listening to your music and and your beautiful voice for many many years from since I was a young fella you were brainwashed from early on me I was I was caught at an early age and further in front of the television what I want to congratulate it first on 25 years and of course on the release of
your album 25 years now so beautiful album 25 songs for 25 years at most people seem like a blink since you first embarked on the music yeah that's that's exactly is I mean it's hard to believe that you know that when you I think when you're busy and when when there's so much going on both in my personal life and and in the in my career it's just like suddenly you wake up on it the kids are growing up and it's been 25 years is the first on a well it's just unbelievable exactly you must look back Marys career
and don't think you've embarked on so many different journeys and I've worked with so many wonderful names down through the years as well it must it must seem like and I suppose when these things happen you take them in your stride but looking back at maybe it maybe makes you go wow that was that was some journey yeah when you lump them all together in hindsight it kind of you kind of say wow you know it is impressive but you know as you said you know different thing happened like be it's you know the first time the album
did well in the charts or before the first time I played the Olympia every single step along the way that to me was amazing i'm say sing and get to sing with Emmylou Harris and all that yeah you know it it was kind of like you know you kind of while you I was really chuffed and everything at the time and it but I just went with the chinotto mean and it's only when you sit back and think God stop that was great when that happened and you've lots of memories think back on and especially people you admire like Emmy Lou Harrison van
Morrison and Joni Mitchell not Joni Mitchell sorry Joan Baez I wish I had someone or Joni Mitchell too but I mean let's not spoil me altogether Joan Baez that was a great one too she invited me over to New York to sing on a live show to recording for an album which was all female artists and it was actually shocked title track from the song we sang together which was ringing them bells about Dylan song beautiful and she gave me to call out of the blue I had never met her I had no connection through
record companies or anything and she just liked what I did and wanted me to be on her album and you know those kind of things just blew me away because I remember Joan Baez from when I was like yourself very young I used to listen to her recording she wouldn't be Monday earlier people I would have brought out on love you know that's that's the thing The phone call about music and it's the beauty wit music it's universal and travels countenance and and you might know that your your music's been played in a
certain area booked but there it is you get the phone call out of the dark look how does that feel when you're sitting back as an artist well it's a lovely feeling you know I mean when I started out I was in it for the love of us you know I mean I just passionate about music and while I you know to say that I was I wasn't ambitious I don't think I even we gave it much thought all I wanted to do with things and just to find place to sing and people to listen to me that was really the driving force you know so transfer for all you know
different I mean even to be playing in big theaters and in Ireland to me was was huge success but like you know to actually start playing in America and my arms to be available in American and that kind of thing is amazing sorry my phone is ringing okay okay that's that's The Black family the sign of a busy busy Liddy of court of course when you talk about it we've traveled the world with your music but of course it began very much at home in the black family home oh yes both my parents had again back great love of
music I mean neither than we're professional musicians are anything like it but my father came from Rathlin island off the north coast of Antrim and he played tradition music played a bit of fiddle and mandolin and my mother then from in contrast came from the Heritage oblong the city and loved to sing never was happier than when she was singing and in the middle of a good old singsong in a session you know she was like that to the very end you ma'am you know between them they've have found this great passion for music which the
five of us locally in her you know we all have it you know my three brothers are musicians and two of them live in San Francisco play a lot in around the Bay Area there and Martin still sings and plays here in Dublin and Frances of course you know who how well she's done yes and I Remembering Mary Black counted how was it mentioned back to a number of years ago I couldn't tell you how many years ago but it was a little it Sean of it I don't know if it was a tribute to the black family but I
remember your mother being there in the audience and gave are in Medina and give her the micro diner and she sang a song and I remember being so touched by and not only her pride first off at I while her children had done but the enjoyment that she gave to use in singing her songs as well I know she was she was a great woman and she you know she liked that she was always so encouraging you know at a time when going into music for me for example was kind of well it was you know it wouldn't have been the most solid of professions let's say and she
always was behind me she wouldn't push me but she'd always say well if it's what you really want to do you have to go after and in a way she saw my success she would have loved him being a singer like a professional singer she would have loved to beam up on the stage singing I know she would and she was so happy then that I got that chance you know and and I i I'm sure you remember back to that day she was quite and happy singing every song that night she just Oh even when she got very old and she she lived to choose a seven she's gone
now about three or four years and she she even though she kind of you know her talking wouldn't have been so great because she'd had strokes and that kind of thing but she never forgot the words of the songs just don't believe songs of state offices are right to the end you know it shows you that the passionate was there for and well talking about it one of the one of the songs that they I'm that you saying that I'm personally passing the better and I know we get a lot of requests for here in the program it's a song and early song called a song for Ireland and a I think we take out a little moment and then listen to time
I'm joined on the line all the way from Dublin by one of the first ladies of Irish song Mary Black you're very very welcome to the program thank you Malachy I have to say firstly it's a personal honor for me to have you on the program because I've been listening to your music and and your beautiful voice for many many years from since I was a young fella you were brainwashed from early on me I was I was caught at an early age and further in front of the television what I want to congratulate it first on 25 years and of course on the release of
your album 25 years now so beautiful album 25 songs for 25 years at most people seem like a blink since you first embarked on the music yeah that's that's exactly is I mean it's hard to believe that you know that when you I think when you're busy and when when there's so much going on both in my personal life and and in the in my career it's just like suddenly you wake up on it the kids are growing up and it's been 25 years is the first on a well it's just unbelievable exactly you must look back Marys career
and don't think you've embarked on so many different journeys and I've worked with so many wonderful names down through the years as well it must it must seem like and I suppose when these things happen you take them in your stride but looking back at maybe it maybe makes you go wow that was that was some journey yeah when you lump them all together in hindsight it kind of you kind of say wow you know it is impressive but you know as you said you know different thing happened like be it's you know the first time the album
did well in the charts or before the first time I played the Olympia every single step along the way that to me was amazing i'm say sing and get to sing with Emmylou Harris and all that yeah you know it it was kind of like you know you kind of while you I was really chuffed and everything at the time and it but I just went with the chinotto mean and it's only when you sit back and think God stop that was great when that happened and you've lots of memories think back on and especially people you admire like Emmy Lou Harrison van
Morrison and Joni Mitchell not Joni Mitchell sorry Joan Baez I wish I had someone or Joni Mitchell too but I mean let's not spoil me altogether Joan Baez that was a great one too she invited me over to New York to sing on a live show to recording for an album which was all female artists and it was actually shocked title track from the song we sang together which was ringing them bells about Dylan song beautiful and she gave me to call out of the blue I had never met her I had no connection through
record companies or anything and she just liked what I did and wanted me to be on her album and you know those kind of things just blew me away because I remember Joan Baez from when I was like yourself very young I used to listen to her recording she wouldn't be Monday earlier people I would have brought out on love you know that's that's the thing The phone call about music and it's the beauty wit music it's universal and travels countenance and and you might know that your your music's been played in a
certain area booked but there it is you get the phone call out of the dark look how does that feel when you're sitting back as an artist well it's a lovely feeling you know I mean when I started out I was in it for the love of us you know I mean I just passionate about music and while I you know to say that I was I wasn't ambitious I don't think I even we gave it much thought all I wanted to do with things and just to find place to sing and people to listen to me that was really the driving force you know so transfer for all you know
different I mean even to be playing in big theaters and in Ireland to me was was huge success but like you know to actually start playing in America and my arms to be available in American and that kind of thing is amazing sorry my phone is ringing okay okay that's that's The Black family the sign of a busy busy Liddy of court of course when you talk about it we've traveled the world with your music but of course it began very much at home in the black family home oh yes both my parents had again back great love of
music I mean neither than we're professional musicians are anything like it but my father came from Rathlin island off the north coast of Antrim and he played tradition music played a bit of fiddle and mandolin and my mother then from in contrast came from the Heritage oblong the city and loved to sing never was happier than when she was singing and in the middle of a good old singsong in a session you know she was like that to the very end you ma'am you know between them they've have found this great passion for music which the
five of us locally in her you know we all have it you know my three brothers are musicians and two of them live in San Francisco play a lot in around the Bay Area there and Martin still sings and plays here in Dublin and Frances of course you know who how well she's done yes and I Remembering Mary Black counted how was it mentioned back to a number of years ago I couldn't tell you how many years ago but it was a little it Sean of it I don't know if it was a tribute to the black family but I
remember your mother being there in the audience and gave are in Medina and give her the micro diner and she sang a song and I remember being so touched by and not only her pride first off at I while her children had done but the enjoyment that she gave to use in singing her songs as well I know she was she was a great woman and she you know she liked that she was always so encouraging you know at a time when going into music for me for example was kind of well it was you know it wouldn't have been the most solid of professions let's say and she
always was behind me she wouldn't push me but she'd always say well if it's what you really want to do you have to go after and in a way she saw my success she would have loved him being a singer like a professional singer she would have loved to beam up on the stage singing I know she would and she was so happy then that I got that chance you know and and I i I'm sure you remember back to that day she was quite and happy singing every song that night she just Oh even when she got very old and she she lived to choose a seven she's gone
now about three or four years and she she even though she kind of you know her talking wouldn't have been so great because she'd had strokes and that kind of thing but she never forgot the words of the songs just don't believe songs of state offices are right to the end you know it shows you that the passionate was there for and well talking about it one of the one of the songs that they I'm that you saying that I'm personally passing the better and I know we get a lot of requests for here in the program it's a song and early song called a song for Ireland and a I think we take out a little moment and then listen to time
