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Mary Black – Katie lyrics
Tumbling curls of green by stainglass streaming light
And a yellow coloured lampshade used to keep us up all night
And the smile upon her face, the tears upon your cheek
And the night sky on the window
Your heart calling out to me.

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Come running home again, katie
Come running home again
Cross my heart and hope to die
Shall I cause another tear from your eye

The mirror that won't talk and your nightgown on the door
And the old pedal singer just don't sing no more
You can roll the reels for hours
From the movie of this book
It's a question mark on this heart of mine
Sends an elder back to look.

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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.

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    AnitaTucker
    On a trip across Lough Corrib to the spiritual island of Inchagoill, I asked my sisters about a song one of them used to sing about a nightie on the door...had heartv=breaking lyrics that really upset me. I had identified the wrong sister but eventually we tracked it to Mary Black's Katie. I listened to it reading the lyrics last night...had wrongly believed it was a case of a young wife discovering her husband's infidelity and left home in a hurry, never to return. Then a lightbulb struck! everything points to my favourite love story of all time. All the ingredients are there... a survivor living with guilt and grief and still hearing the call of his beloved Katie. It has to be the story of Withering Heights, even the name Catherine works, and especially Death keeping them(Heathcliff) apart but never separated. And the creepy window references..Cathering forever appeared as a ghost trying to get in..What do you think?
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    AnitaTucker
    On a trip across Lough Corrib to the spiritual island of Inchagoill, I asked my sisters about a song one of them used to sing about a nightie on the door...had heartv=breaking lyrics that really upset me. I had identified the wrong sister but eventually we tracked it to Mary Black's Katie. I listened to it reading the lyrics last night...had wrongly believed it was a case of a young wife discovering her husband's infidelity and left home in a hurry, never to return. Then a lightbulb struck! everything points to my favourite love story of all time. All the ingredients are there... a survivor living with guilt and grief and still hearing the call of his beloved Katie. It has to be the story of Withering Heights, even the name Catherine works, and especially Death keeping them(Heathcliff) apart but never separated. And the creepy window references..Cathering forever appeared as a ghost trying to get in..What do you think?
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