Katy Lyrics - Singles - Tom Paxton

Oh, I have a little daughter and my daughter's name is Kate 

And she's every bit mischievous as a kitten on a skate 

With a bandage on her forehead and the bruises on her knees 

You would swear she'd fought with buccaneers upon the seven seas 

For it's up the stairs and down the stairs and in the room and out 

Like a miniature tornado, she can blow the house about 

Take an angel with the devil in the twinkling of her eye 

And that's my Katy, little lady, and I love her 

Oh, you might believe in miracles, you might believe in saints 

But you'd never believe my Katy when she's playing with her paints 

For there's red upon the window and there's green upon her face 

In her hair, and in her eyes but on the paper, not a trace 

When she's in her room and quiet, and there comes a bit of calm 

You develop the sensation that you're sitting on a bomb 

Take an angel with the devil in the twinkling of her eye 

And that's my Katy, little lady, and I love her 

My Katy loves her games, you know, a thirty times a week 

I find myself dragooned into a game of hide and seek 

So, I find myself in closets, under beds I quietly creep 

And I wait for thirty minutes till my brain has gone to sleep 

Yes, I sit there in the closet and it seems like half a day 

Till I find a friend has come to call and Kate's gone out to play 

Take an angel with the devil in the twinkling of her eye 

That's my Katy, little lady, and I love her 

And you might have heard of daddies who would dote upon their girls 

Who get wrapped around their fingers by the tossing of the curls 

Who respond to hugs and kisses till there's nothing they wouldn't do 

Don't you ever believe a word if it, it simply isn't true 

For I'd only jump the moon for her, I'd only jump the sea 

For the hugs I get to give her and the kisses she gives to me 

Take an angel with the devil in the twinkling of her eye 

That's my Katy, little lady, and I love her 

Take an angel with the devil in the twinkling of her eye 

That's my Katy, little lady, and I love her